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Maurine Burton Williams

PORTAGE –  Maurine Burton Williams, age 98, died on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at St. Mary’s Care Center in Madison.

Maurine was born on November 25, 1914, on a farm in Fairfield Township to Harvey Burton and Merle Porter Burton.  It was a bad time for farmers and her family moved to town.  She was baptized in the Methodist Episcopal Church on April 17, 1930.  She graduated from Portage High School in June of 1933.  Maurine married Harold Williams on September 1, 1934.  When Harold was drafted in 1944, she began “working outside the home”.  She liked working in retail, first at Spurgeons in Portage and then as a full-time employee at JC Penney’s on the square in Madison.  She was offered the opportunity of sales manager at the new JC Penney store in West Towne Mall.  She worked there until Harold retired.  They moved to Cave Creek, Arizona.  Maurine did not like the desert and missed her family and friends so they returned to Portage.  She reunited with old friends in the IOOF Rebekah Lodge, church circles, and card clubs.  After breaking her hip, she moved to Angelus Retirement Home in Cottage Grove, and later transferred to St. Mary’s Care Center Memory Unit. 

Maurine is survived by her daughter, Lois Kiggens, Madison; her grandchildren, Jim (Debbie) Kiggens, Weldon, CA, Kathy Bultman, Cottage Grove, and Cindy (Craig) McCallum, Madison; her great-grandchildren, Shaun, Karra, Bryan, Roland, Laura, Lisa, Chris, and Cameron, other relatives and many friends.  She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Harold, her daughter, Linda McCormick, and her brothers, Leslie and Clyde Burton.

Visitation will be held from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 2, 2013, at the Pflanz Mantey Mendrala Funeral Home in Portage, with a Memorial Service held at 6:00 p.m., with Rev. Tom Countryman officiating.  Inurnment will be private.  

In lieu of flowers, donations to the Portage United Methodist Church, 1804 New Pinery Rd., Portage, 53901, or the UW Carbone Cancer Center, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792, would be appreciated. 

Maurine’s family would like to thank the staff at St. Mary’s Care Center for the wonderful care she received. She was “the greatest generation” to us…

 

 

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