From:  Sue Davis   

The South Bend Tribune, Monday Evening, May 1, 1944:
FUNERAL NOTES
   Funeral services for Mrs. Rhoda Frances Milliken, rural route No. 3, who died Saturday in her home, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Russel funeral chapel.  Rev. Norman E. Detroy, pastor of the Lydick Evangelical church, will officiate.  Burial will be in Mount Pleasant cemetery.  Friends may call Monday evening and until the hour of the service in Russell chapel.  She is survived by eight grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Susanna Stroupe, rural route No. 2.