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- Winona Daily News (Winona, Minnesota)
April 26, 1965
Durand, Wis. (Special) - Mrs William Arthur Gillmore, 90, died at St. Benedict's Community Hospital Saturday at 4:40 p.m., where she had been a patient a few weeks. Previously she had been at Marycrest Rest Home.
The former Amelia Huntington, she was born here Jan. 18, 875, oldest daughter of William H. Huntington, who started the Pepin County Courier, one of the first newspapers in Durand, and his wife Jane Ecklor, who had come here with her family before the Civil War.
She attended the University of Wisconsin and taught in the Durand schools. She was married Nov. 4, 1903. She was one of the organizers of the Durand Woman's Club; secretary of the library board; a member of the common Schools of Pepin County group; served on the school board, and belonged to the Eastern Star.
Surviving is one son, William, Durand, one daughter, died in 1916. Her husband died Feb. 8, 1959 at Phoenix, Ariz., and was returned here for burial.
Burial in Forest Hill cemetery.
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