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From: "Michael Cosner" <>
Subject: [WHITAKER] Fw: William Whitaker Died 1918 in Monroe Co, IN - "BLIND FOR OVER 16 YEARS; CANCER FOR 12 YEARS; NOW DEAD"
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:24:07 -0400

FYI

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From: "Randi Richardson" <>
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Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 8:43 AM
Subject: [INMONROE] William Whitaker Died


> Bloomington (IN) Daily Telephone, Dec 30, 1918, p. 1.
>
> BLIND FOR OVER 16 YEARS; CANCER FOR 12 YEARS; NOW DEAD
>
> Blind for over 16 years and a sufferer most intense from cancer for 12
> years--yet true to the Christian faith and patient in his double
> affliction, William Whitaker, one of the best known residents of the
Victor
> neighborhood, died Sunday night, age 77.
>
> The blindness seemed inherited as he had a sister and an aunt who also
lost
> their sight.
>
> Mr. Whitaker was a man of Christian character, a member of the Baptist
> Church at Stanford and had lived in the same community all his life. The
> wife died about 12 years ago and the living children are Charles R., James
> E., Otis, Audley (sic) and Alonzo, who are living, and the dead are John
> Wesley, Jacob, Delmer and Mary.
>
> Funeral services from the home Tuesday at 10 o'clock and burial at 1
> o'clock at Clear Creek in charge of Rev. Neal.

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