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- Watertown Daily Times (NY) - Tuesday,
May 6, 2003
Milford R. Tifft, 78, of 131 Salisbury St., died Sunday at
Samaritan Medical Center, Watertown, where he was admitted Friday.
Mr. Tifft
retired March 29, 1990, from Blount Lumber Co., Lacona, after 19 years' service.
Previously, he had been a custodian at Sandy Creek Central School and from 1957
to 1971 he worked at the former TC&G Corp., Lacona.
He was a member of Sandy
Creek United Methodist Church.
Born Nov. 25, 1924, in the town of Ellisburg,
son of Virgil H. and Muriel M. James Tifft, he graduated in 1942 from Sandy
Creek Central.
He married Anna M. Spedding, who died Sept. 24, 1997. He had
previously been married to Madeline F. Roberts.
Surviving are three
stepchildren whom he raised, a stepson and his wife, David and Sarah Crossett,
Mexico, a stepdaughter, whom he adopted, Patricia Tifft, Liverpool, and a
stepdaughter and a stepson- in-law, Janice and Darryl Deming, Lacona; his
companion, Irene Fuller, Sandy Creek, a granddaughter and two cousins.
A
grandson died before him.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at
Summerville Funeral Home with the Rev. Wayne Grow, pastor of Sandy Creek United
Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn
Cemetery.
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