Newspaper Clippings for
May, 1955
18 May 1955
Funeral Set
JESSE S. DENMAN
MILLBURN – Funeral services for Jesse S. Denman, 69,
retired Millburn farmer and secretary of Millburn Mutual
Insurance Co. for 39 years, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow
in Strang Funeral Home, Antioch.
Mr. Denman, who retired in January from the insurance post,
died at 8:45 a.m. yesterday in Victory Memorial Hospital
after a lingering illness.
The Rev. L. J. Messersmith, pastor of Millburn
Congregational Church of which Mr. Denman was a deacon on
the church board for many years, will officiate.
Burial will be in Millburn Cemetery. Friends may call at
the Strang Funeral Home after 2 p.m. today.
He was born Christmas Day, 1885, in Deerfield, and lived in
Gurnee for a short time before moving to Millburn. He
belonged to the Lake County Farm Bureau and was active in
all civic affairs of his community.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret White
Denman, Oct. 1, 1952.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Grace Kane, Mundelein,
Mrs. Margaret DeYoung and Mrs. Alice Bauman, both of
Millburn; two sons, Kenneth and Robert of Millburn; two
brothers, Schyuler, Waukegan, and Edwin, Gurnee; a sister,
Mrs. Minnetta Bonner, Rhinelander, Wis., and nine
grandchildren.
