William A. Lillibridge (1957)

LILLIBRIDGE, MAINS, BARTON

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Date: 11/3/2006 at 14:40:03

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
May 29, 1957

W. A. LILLIBRIDGE Of Earlham Dies

Funeral services were held May 20 from the Earlham Methodist church for William A. Lillibridge of Earlham, whose death occurred May 17, 1957, at Madison county Memorial hospital in Winterset. The Rev. Anthony Blankers conducted the services. Burial was made in the Earlham cemetery.

Mr. Lillibridge had been a resident of Madison county since 1905. He was employed for many years at the Marquette quarry near Earlham, but was crippled in an accident there about 10 years ago and had been retired since that time. He was 83 years old at his death.

He was a native of Eagle Grove, where he was born Jan. 17, 1874, a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lillibridge. He was married at Menlo on July 12, 1901, to Belle Mains. Her death occurred in 1952. Their only child, a son, Wayne Lillibridge, died in 1930.

He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Edna Barton of Spencer; and a brother, Hosea Lillibridge of Alden, Minnesota.
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Earlham Library Obituaries, May 1957
Earlham, Iowa

WILLIAM A. LILLIBRIDGE

William A. Lillibridge, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lillibridge, was born in Wright county, near Eagle Grove, on January 17, 1874, and died in the Madison County Memorial hospital at Winterset, May 17, 1957 at an age of eighty-three years and four months.

He received his early training in the Wright county schools and later attended Highland Park College in Des Moines.

On July 12, 1901, he was united in marriage to Belle Mains at Menlo, Iowa. to this union one son, Wayne was born. He preceded his parents in death on February 26, 1930 at the age of twenty-six years.

The family first made their home on a farm near Eagle Grove. In 1905, they moved to Earlham. He became a member of the Earlham Methodist church on March 6, 1910.

For several years he was employed by the Marquette Cement Manufacturing Co. An accident in the company's quarry left him seriously crippled, and during the last years of his life he got around with difficulty and with the aid of crutches. He loved the out of doors, worked industriously in his garden even after his retirement, and he enjoyed visiting with his friends and neighbors.

Mrs. Lillibridge, his wife, preceded him in death on May 5, 1952.

Left to mourn his passing are one sister, Mrs. Edna Barton, of Spencer, Iowa; one brother, Hosea D. Lillibridge of Alden, Minnesota; and several nieces and nephews.

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