FYI ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randi Richardson" <GFTL@bluemarble.net> To: <INMONROE-L@rootsweb.com> 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.