OBITUARY

Edith (Swanson) Dalton

Princeton: - Edith M. Dalton, 89, formerly of 444 S. Church St., died Thursday at Methodist Medical Center in Peoria. Services will be at 11 a.m. on Monday at the First Lutheran Church in Princeton with the Rev. James Bennett offiiciating. Burial will be in the Elm Lawn Memorial Park in Princeton. Visitation will be one hour before the service at the Church. A memorial has been established to the First Lutheran Church in Princeton.

She was born on February 7, 1900 in Princeton, the daughter of Sam and Caroline Swanson. She married Hiram Dalton and he died December 31, 1921. She was a member of the First Lutheran Church in Princeton.

She is survived by four daughters, Virginia Schuldt of Sterling, Mrs. Edwin (Norma) Conkling of Kasbeer, Mrs. Roger (Janice) Hultine of Sterling and Mrs. Roger (Dorothy) Fahlberg of Pekin; two sons, Gerald of Richdale, Mo.; Robert of Kankakee; 23 grandchildren; 12 great grandchildren.

(The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois, Sep. 8, 1989, submitted by Melva Taylor)