"The Milton and Milton Junction Courier", Milton Junction, Wisconsin, Thursday, Nov. 16, 1950, p 3. Mrs. Nettie M. Brown West was born June 17, 1859, at Brookfield, N. Y., the third child of Robert W. and Ann L. Newton Brown. The family moved to Utica, Dane county, Wis., in 1864 where Nettie grew to womanhood. Her mother died in 1867 leaving four children. Her father and two brothers died during the year of 1925, and a half-sister and a half-brother have also gone on. Her sister Hattie, who became the wife of Allen B. West, died at their Milton Junction home in 1939. The younger half-sister, Mrs. Martha Anderson survives. After some years, her father sold the Dane county farm and moved to Hebron, Ill. Nettie was married to W. Leman West in 1881 and they lived on the farm where she had grown up. To this union were born two daughters, Mabel L., and Anna M. Shortly before his death in 1891, Leman bought a lot for a home in Milton Junction. Nettie went on with his plans and built a home on Madison avenue next to that of her father-in-law, William B. West, who had sold his farm in Utica and entered the lumber business at Milton Junction. Mrs. West was connected with the West Lumber company for about fifteen years and older people in the community will remember her as she helped to figure estimates on construction work. She was also active in church work, being especially interested in promotion of the Junior Christian Endeavor society. The home was sold when her daughter [Anna] went to China as a missionary. Mrs. West spent some of the following years in New York City while Mabel was attending Columbia University, at Salem, W. Va., where Mabel was teaching, and in Milton where she helped to care for her invalid father. In 1919 she went to China to be with Anna, and the following year, Mabel also went to China in the same mission school where her sister was teaching. In Shanghai, Mrs. West was active in the Community church of which she and Anna were charter members. Her work in the Bible school and Woman's auxiliary of that church gave her interests that continues to the last. Although she never learned to converse in Chinese, she had many friends among the teachers and the pupils in the mission school. She was always ready to assist in relief work and she made many little garments on her sewing machine. Her Chinese friends honored her on more than one occasion, two of which were her 80th and 90th birthdays, the later only a few months before she returned to this country. Anna died after the beginning of World War II. Mrs. West decided to stay in China even though there was an opportunity for her to return to the United States. Then she and Mabel with many others were taken to a concentration camp where she was an example of cheerful helpfulness. While others grumbled at their fate, she always found something to do. Her health was none too good after the camp experience, and as Mabel had a broken hip, it seemed best for them to leave for America before the Communists reached Shanghai. They arrived in Milton during the early part of 1949 and for several months made their home with Mrs. West's sister-in-law, Mrs. Willard D. Burdick, and her niece Marjorie. A year ago, she went to live with her sister, Mrs. Martha Anderson, at whose home she died on the evening of November 1, after several months of poor health. Mrs. West leaves her daughter, Mabel, her sister, Mrs. Anderson, her sister-in-law, Mrs. Willard D. Burdick, nine nieces and nephews, several grand nieces and nephews, and a multitude of friends around the world. Funeral services were held Saturday, Nov. 4, in the Milton Junction Seventh Day Baptist church, with the Rev. Kenneth Van Horn officiating. Pallbearers were Leland Shaw, Elston Shaw, Leland Skaggs, Paul Green, David Sung, and Ross Coon. They Came to Milton http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jonsaunders