MILTON B. FRIEL
The Rev. John Marley offered the funeral mass Thursday for Milton B. Friel in Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic church. The rosary was recited Wednesday night in the Rogan mortuary chapel and burial was in St. Joseph’s cemetery.
Mr. Friel died Sunday, October 1 in Sweetwater Memorial hospital where he had been a patient for one day.
Milton Blair Friel was born Nov. 13, 1903 in Chicopee, Kan. He had lived in Rock Springs for 36 years and for several years was employed by Union Pacific Coal company. For the last three years he was a part time employee of the state highway department. At one time he served his UMWA local as president. Mr. Friel and Eva Virginia Dominiski were married in Rock Springs 32 years ago.
Survivors are his wife who resides as 1206 Elk; two sons and one daughter, Hugh J. Friel of Worland, Milton Jr. and Mrs. Larry (Nancy) Hickerson, both of Rock Springs; two grandchildren, Stephen Hickerson and Kevin Friel. Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Ruth Schmitz of Colorado Springs, Mrs. Kathleen Wilbert and Mrs. Marjorie Rogers, both of Pittsburg, Kan. Mrs. Schmitz and Mrs. Wilbert attended the funeral and burial services.
--Rock Springs Miner, Oct 9, 1960
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