An obituary for Berton E. Wooldridge was carried The New Palladium of Benton Harbor, Michigan on Thursday 18 Jun 1953 and it reads: "Berton C. Wooldridge, 82, father of Earl Wooldridge, 555 Fair avenue, died at 6:30a. m. today at a Kalamazoo hospital. He had been a patient there since May 8, 1952. His body will be brought to the Dean & Dey Brothers mortuary. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Mr. Wooldridge was born Sept. 26, 1870 at Grand Junction, near Bangor. He came to Benton Harbor to live about 50 years ago. He formerly was a basket maker for the Old Thayer Basket factory, now the Berrien County Package company. Besides his son, Earl, Mr. Wooldridge is survived by another son, Isaac, of Berrien Springs, and a daughter, Mrs. Mildred Gale, of Muskegon. He is also leaves a niece, Mrs. Esther Drake, and a nephew, William Wooldridge, living in Kalamazoo. A brother lives in Everett, Wash."
An obituary for Berton E. Wooldridge was carried The New Palladium of Benton Harbor, Michigan on Thursday 18 Jun 1953 and it reads: "Berton C. Wooldridge, 82, father of Earl Wooldridge, 555 Fair avenue, died at 6:30a. m. today at a Kalamazoo hospital. He had been a patient there since May 8, 1952. His body will be brought to the Dean & Dey Brothers mortuary. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Mr. Wooldridge was born Sept. 26, 1870 at Grand Junction, near Bangor. He came to Benton Harbor to live about 50 years ago. He formerly was a basket maker for the Old Thayer Basket factory, now the Berrien County Package company. Besides his son, Earl, Mr. Wooldridge is survived by another son, Isaac, of Berrien Springs, and a daughter, Mrs. Mildred Gale, of Muskegon. He is also leaves a niece, Mrs. Esther Drake, and a nephew, William Wooldridge, living in Kalamazoo. A brother lives in Everett, Wash."
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