"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 182, No 22, p 14, May 29, 1967. William Asa Leigh Prentice, the son of William Allen and Calphrona Babcock Prentice, was born in 1875 at North Loup, Neb. His parents were among the early settlers at North Loup who helped establish the first Seventh Day Baptist church in that area. There he grew to manhood, learning many skills from his carpenter father which were to be of use to him all his life. While working in Kansas he met Miriam Monroe of Whiting, who in 1903 became his wife. They farmed in Oklahoma and Nebraska before moving to Nortonville, Kansas, with their four children in 1920. A member of the Seventh Day Baptist church first at North Loup, Neb., and then at Nortonville, he served his church faithfully until failing health kept him away in recent months. He was ordained a deacon of the church in 1929. Soon after his wife's death in 1965 he made his home with his daughter Daisy, Mrs. Otto Premauer, of Oskaloosa, Kan. He died on May 6, 1967, at the Winchester Hospital. Other survivors are a daughter Lucile, Mrs. R. Loyal Todd, of Ft. Atkinson, Wis., and a son, William, of Leavenworth, Kan. A daughter Pearl, Mrs. Wooda Carr, died in 1954. Two sisters, Angeline Abbey Allen and Elaine Boehler, and a brother, Harry Prentice, preceded him in death. He had seven grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and ten nieces and nephews. Deacon Prentice's life was shaped by work, and he expressed the real meaning of John Ruskin's words, "The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it." As increased weakness set in with his 92 years, he also gave meaning to the verse by Henry Van Dyke, "I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, Because the road's last turn will be the best." They Came to Milton http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jonsaunders