RICHARDSON, Milford Alonzo “Lonnie”

Date of birth:  7 Jun 1868 – Hensley Township, Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 5 Sep 1947 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana

Franklin Evening Star, September 5, 1947

Lonnie Richardson
Dies Here Friday

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Funeral To Be Monday
For Retired Grocer

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Milford A. Richardson, age 79, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Omar Wallace, Friday morning. He had been ill for a year, and two weeks ago his condition became critical. Mr. Richardson was known in Franklin as “Lonnie”.

Funeral services are to be con­ducted at the Flinn Mortuary Mon­day afternoon at 2 o’clock, with the Rev. James T. Lawson in charge. Interment will be in Greenlawn cem­etery.

Friends may call at the mortuary Sunday afternoon from 3 to 5 o’clock and in the evening from 7 to 9 o’clock and any time Monday until the service.

Mr. Richardson was born in Hens­ley Township on June 7, 1869, the son of Bluford Richardson and Martha Anderson Richardson. He received his education in the Hens­ley Township schools.

His wife, Henrietta, whom he married in Franklin, July 16, 1902, died March 22, 1919.

For 40 years Mr. Richardson was a grocer in west Franklin, for many years operating on West street. Through his business connections, he had become well known in the county.

In his boyhood, Mr. Richardson united with the Mt. Carmel Christ­ian church, later transferring his membership to the Tabernacle Christ­ian church here.

Surviving with the sister are a son, Omer T. Richardson, and a grandson, Bennie Richardson.

Submitted by Mark E. Wirey