----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 3/ /1947

DITTON FUNERAL IS HELD IN GREENWOOD
METHODIST PASTOR HAS CHARGE OF SERVICES SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Greenwood--Funeral rites were held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dixon, 3 miles north of Greenwood, Clark County, for Frank Ditton, 71, Greenwood, who died March 27, 1947 at St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, where he had been taken the preceding day. Mrs. Dixon is a niece of Mr. Ditton.

The Rev. Lee Holmes, pastor of Grace Methodist Church, officiated at the services, during which Mrs. George Haeuser and Mrs. Chal Perkins, accompanied by Mrs. John Meng, sang Safe in the Arms of Jesus and Asleep in Jesus . Burial took place in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Victor Perman, Joseph Gregorich, Adolph Wessel, Joseph Mikottis, Edwin Klinke, and John Speich Sr.

Mr. Ditton was born Sept. 2, 1875 in Columbia City, Ind., and was unmarried. Only survivors were two nieces and a nephew, Paris Rand, Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs. Ernest Dixon, Greenwood and Mrs. A. L. Devos, Neillsville.