"The Milton Junction Telephone", Milton Junction, Wisconsin, Thursday, Sep. 4, 1941.
Warrent Officer Alban F. Saunders, director of Minnesota's 151st Field Artillery band, died August 24th at Camp Claiborne, La., where he had been stationed with his famed band for several months.
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Russell H. Saunders, he was born March 26, 1898, in Milton where he attended school. He was soloist with the local band and later travelled through the United States before and after the World War with concert bands. During the war he directed bands at Camp Grant, Ill.
He married Helen Holliday of Milton 21 years ago and they moved to Minneapolis. Survivors are his wife; five children, Donald, Dorothy, and Jeannine Saunders and Mrs. Louise Flannelle, all of Minneapolis, and Raymond Saunders, Plainview, Minn.; and his step-mother, Mrs. R. H. Saunders of Milton.
Mrs. R. H. Saunders, G. W. Holliday, Mrs. James Tiffinay and Mrs. Howard Holliday attended the funeral which was held in Minneapolis last Friday, six members of his band also being in attendance. Simultaneously with the Minneapolis service, a military service was held at Camp Claiborne. The body was brought here and a brief service was held at the Gray and Albrecht funeral home Saturday afternoon, the Rev. E. G. Holborow, of Rock Prairie Presbyterian church, officiating. Burial was in Milton cemetery, pallbearers being James Flannelle and Neil Armstrong of Minneapolis, Ross Mansur of Emerald Grove and James Tiffiany, Milton.
Warrent Officer Alban F. Saunders, director of Minnesota's 151st Field Artillery band, died August 24th at Camp Claiborne, La., where he had been stationed with his famed band for several months.
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Russell H. Saunders, he was born March 26, 1898, in Milton where he attended school. He was soloist with the local band and later travelled through the United States before and after the World War with concert bands. During the war he directed bands at Camp Grant, Ill.
He married Helen Holliday of Milton 21 years ago and they moved to Minneapolis. Survivors are his wife; five children, Donald, Dorothy, and Jeannine Saunders and Mrs. Louise Flannelle, all of Minneapolis, and Raymond Saunders, Plainview, Minn.; and his step-mother, Mrs. R. H. Saunders of Milton.
Mrs. R. H. Saunders, G. W. Holliday, Mrs. James Tiffinay and Mrs. Howard Holliday attended the funeral which was held in Minneapolis last Friday, six members of his band also being in attendance. Simultaneously with the Minneapolis service, a military service was held at Camp Claiborne. The body was brought here and a brief service was held at the Gray and Albrecht funeral home Saturday afternoon, the Rev. E. G. Holborow, of Rock Prairie Presbyterian church, officiating. Burial was in Milton cemetery, pallbearers being James Flannelle and Neil Armstrong of Minneapolis, Ross Mansur of Emerald Grove and James Tiffiany, Milton.
"The Milton Junction Telephone", Milton Junction, Wisconsin, Thursday, Sep. 4, 1941.
Warrent Officer Alban F. Saunders, director of Minnesota's 151st Field Artillery band, died August 24th at Camp Claiborne, La., where he had been stationed with his famed band for several months.
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Russell H. Saunders, he was born March 26, 1898, in Milton where he attended school. He was soloist with the local band and later travelled through the United States before and after the World War with concert bands. During the war he directed bands at Camp Grant, Ill.
He married Helen Holliday of Milton 21 years ago and they moved to Minneapolis. Survivors are his wife; five children, Donald, Dorothy, and Jeannine Saunders and Mrs. Louise Flannelle, all of Minneapolis, and Raymond Saunders, Plainview, Minn.; and his step-mother, Mrs. R. H. Saunders of Milton.
Mrs. R. H. Saunders, G. W. Holliday, Mrs. James Tiffinay and Mrs. Howard Holliday attended the funeral which was held in Minneapolis last Friday, six members of his band also being in attendance. Simultaneously with the Minneapolis service, a military service was held at Camp Claiborne. The body was brought here and a brief service was held at the Gray and Albrecht funeral home Saturday afternoon, the Rev. E. G. Holborow, of Rock Prairie Presbyterian church, officiating. Burial was in Milton cemetery, pallbearers being James Flannelle and Neil Armstrong of Minneapolis, Ross Mansur of Emerald Grove and James Tiffiany, Milton.
Warrent Officer Alban F. Saunders, director of Minnesota's 151st Field Artillery band, died August 24th at Camp Claiborne, La., where he had been stationed with his famed band for several months.
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Russell H. Saunders, he was born March 26, 1898, in Milton where he attended school. He was soloist with the local band and later travelled through the United States before and after the World War with concert bands. During the war he directed bands at Camp Grant, Ill.
He married Helen Holliday of Milton 21 years ago and they moved to Minneapolis. Survivors are his wife; five children, Donald, Dorothy, and Jeannine Saunders and Mrs. Louise Flannelle, all of Minneapolis, and Raymond Saunders, Plainview, Minn.; and his step-mother, Mrs. R. H. Saunders of Milton.
Mrs. R. H. Saunders, G. W. Holliday, Mrs. James Tiffinay and Mrs. Howard Holliday attended the funeral which was held in Minneapolis last Friday, six members of his band also being in attendance. Simultaneously with the Minneapolis service, a military service was held at Camp Claiborne. The body was brought here and a brief service was held at the Gray and Albrecht funeral home Saturday afternoon, the Rev. E. G. Holborow, of Rock Prairie Presbyterian church, officiating. Burial was in Milton cemetery, pallbearers being James Flannelle and Neil Armstrong of Minneapolis, Ross Mansur of Emerald Grove and James Tiffiany, Milton.
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