Obit: Eldridge, Mina J. (1886 - 1945)

 

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Surnames: Phillips, Woodford, Carpenter, Eldridge, Bacon, Jungheim, Harrian

 

----Source: Humbird Enterprise (Humbird, Clark Co., Wis.) 02/24/1945

 

Eldridge, Mina J. (6 AUG 1886 - 30 JAN 1945)

 

Will Phillips and his sister Mrs. Carrie Woodford returned the last of the week from Thompson Falls, Mont., where they were called by the sudden death and burial of their sister, Mrs. Charles Eldridge.

 

Mrs. Eldridge died very suddenly at her home in Thompson Falls Tuesday forenoon, Jan. 30th, 1945, of a heart attack.  She was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Leonidas Phillips, and was born in the town of Pine Valley (Clark County, Wis.), near Neillsville, on Aug. 6, 1886, and was 58 years, 5 months and 24 days of age at the time of her death.  She was christened Mina Jane Phillips, and was united in marriage with Charles Eldridge at Eau Claire in 1904.  Their home has been in Montana for the past thirty years or more.

 

Surviving are her husband, and five children, three daughters and two sons: Mrs. Mae Carpenter of roman; Miss Lillian Eldridge, a teacher at Townsend; Mrs. Harold Bacon of Thompson Falls; Gerald, at Hot Springs; and Archie, who is overseas.  There are twelve grandchildren.  Mrs. Eldridge is also survived by three sisters, Mrs. Carrie Woodford, Humbird; Mrs. Delia Jungheim, Plainview, Minn.; Mrs. Ella Harrian of Los Angeles, Calif.; and three brothers: William of Humbird; Clarence of Merrillan; and Ernest, La Crosse.

 

Suneral services were held in the Methodist Church at Thompson Falls on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 3rd, and burial was in a cemetery of that city.

 

 


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