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Longtime railroad worker Frank Shippy dies in Monroe
Frank Shippy of Monroe died in St. Clare Hospital after a long illness. He was a Milwaukee Road and Illinois Central railroad man for 38 years, later farming in Lena and Browntown areas. Born July 10 1893 in McConnell Illinois he married Ethel Phillips in Freeport August 26 1921. He is survived by his widow four daughters four sons one brother five sisters and 23 grandchildren. Services April 18 at Newcomer Funeral Home with burial at Greenwood Cemetery.
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St. Clare Hospital
Mr. Act
Stivny
Milwaukee Road
Illinois Central
Lena-Browntown
Swiss Colony Inn
Mr. Shippy
McConnell
Ill
Perry
Clara Runkle
Freeport
Ethel Phillips
Monroe
Ethel
Wilbur
Marie) Pleasant
Pearl City
Reinhold
Viola) Weikert
Watertown
Arthur
Shirley) “Miller
William
Violet
Newcomer Funeral Home
Harold Crume
United Methodist Church
Greenwood Cemetery
William F. Paulzkill
Mineral Point
Dodgeville
Iowa County Co‘op
Bernice Baker
Bernice
Kenneth Shortreed
Portage
M. Terrisita
Racine
Leo
Lawrence
Paulzkill
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Gorgen Funeral Home
John Lincicum
Elizabeth
Lloyd Lincicum
Browntown
Freeport Memorial Hospital
No Law-Jones
Oak Lawn Cemetery
Esther
John
Harold
Roger
Beauford Steinhoff
Cuba City
Robert Larder
Merimar
Fla
Harlan Virtue
Madison
Burdett Dobler
Eugene Waler
Stockton
Chester
Beloit
Cor A. Hager
Sterling
Hager
Allen
Clyde’ Perguson
Robert Percycoe
Rock Falls
Jack Nicklaus
Robert Short
Dixon, Ill
Steve Near
Chicago
Thomas
Jeffrey
Edmund
Printer
W Va
Monticello
Dale H. Halverson
Brookfield
Herman’ A
Hazel) Becker
McNeal Hospital
Berwyn
Nancy Becker
Herman A
Hazel Hoesly Becker
Montice
Edward W
Elsbeth) Marty Jr
Monticello High School
Halverson
Swiss Church
New Glarus
George G. Bernard
Grace Lutheran
LaGrange