Calvin Baxter, 47 years of age, a World war veteran died at 3:30 a.m. today at
the Hines Veterans hospital in Chicago, after an illness of several months of
carcinoma.
He had lived with his mother, Mrs. Mahala Baxter, Knight Ridge, since the death
of his wife, Alta Mae Baxter, nine years ago. His illness developed early this
year and he was taken on May 1 to the Veterans hospital, at Indianapolis, where
he was under treatment for three weeks. He was brought to his home and was
taken back to Indianapolis hospital July 31, remaining there a week before being
sent to the Chicago hospital.
He had served in Company G, 36th Infantry, during the World war, but did not see
overseas service.
In addition to the mother the survivors are three children, William, Ray and Ruth Baxter; two brothers, Same Baxter, Whitehall road, and Horace N. Baxter, rural route three, and four sisters, Mrs. Jane Rice, Whitehall road, Mrs. Ethel Butcher of Earlville, Ill., Mrs. Emma McGown, rural route two, and Mrs. Grace Myers, rural route three.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Knight Ridge church, and will be conducted by Rev. W. C. Chafin. Burial will be in the Knight Ridge cemetery.
The body will be taken to the home, but the time of the arrival from Chicago has not been learned.
[Bloomington Evening World, September 17, 1940, page 1, column 4]
Calvin Baxter, 47 years of age, a World war veteran died at 3:30 a.m. today at
the Hines Veterans hospital in Chicago, after an illness of several months of
carcinoma.
He had lived with his mother, Mrs. Mahala Baxter, Knight Ridge, since the death
of his wife, Alta Mae Baxter, nine years ago. His illness developed early this
year and he was taken on May 1 to the Veterans hospital, at Indianapolis, where
he was under treatment for three weeks. He was brought to his home and was
taken back to Indianapolis hospital July 31, remaining there a week before being
sent to the Chicago hospital.
He had served in Company G, 36th Infantry, during the World war, but did not see
overseas service.
In addition to the mother the survivors are three children, William, Ray and Ruth Baxter; two brothers, Same Baxter, Whitehall road, and Horace N. Baxter, rural route three, and four sisters, Mrs. Jane Rice, Whitehall road, Mrs. Ethel Butcher of Earlville, Ill., Mrs. Emma McGown, rural route two, and Mrs. Grace Myers, rural route three.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Knight Ridge church, and will be conducted by Rev. W. C. Chafin. Burial will be in the Knight Ridge cemetery.
The body will be taken to the home, but the time of the arrival from Chicago has not been learned.
[Bloomington Evening World, September 17, 1940, page 1, column 4]
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