ALICE COLLINS WILDER
Mrs. Harry Wilder

	Services were held in the First Congregational Church at 
2:00 p.m. on Monday for Mrs. Alice Collins Wilder, 85, wife of 
the late Harry E. Wilder, whose death occurred in 1954.  Mrs. 
Wilder's death occurred at 9:30 p.m. last Friday in the 
Cameron Hospital where she had been admitted two weeks 
previously after she had suffered a broken hip.  She had been 
in declining health for some months, however, she had managed 
to continue living in her own home with the assistance at 
times of Mrs. Harry Smurr, Mrs. Florence Howland, Mrs. Edith 
Burns, and Agnes Yates and the constant watchfulnness of her 
children.

	The former Alice Collins, she was born to Mrs. And Mrs. 
Charles Collins in Jamestown Township, Steuben Co. (Ind.) on 
February 4, 1876, and had spent her entire life in this 
county.  She was one of six children, two daughters and four 
sons: Lynn, Florence, Alice, Fred, Walter, and Frank Collins.  
Mrs. Wilder's younger days were spent on her father's farm and 
she worked in the general store at Jamestown.  After attending 
the common schools she went to Marion College at Marion, 
Indiana, after which she taught school in what was then known 
as the Collins school on the Vistula Road.  She was married to 
Harry E. Wilder in 1902 and they moved to Angola around 1904.

	Mr. and Mrs. Wilder had four children: Lorene Rose, who 
was born in 1907 and died in  1935, surviving are Leon Wendell 
Wilder of Dayton, Ohio; Katherine Wilder Wilt, of Ft. Wayne, 
and Richard Collins Wilder of Angola. Surviving also are 
several grandchildren.

Mr. and Mrs. Wilder were deeply devoted to the work of the 
Congregational Church in Angola, where they held their 
membership since 1906.  Mrs. Wilder taught in the Sunday 
school where she was an excellent teacher and example.  In 
later years she was a faithful member of the Women's Bible 
Study class.  Of a highly cultured and literary mind she was a  
member of the Sorosis Circle in Angola and served as the 
president of the club in 1941-42, and was an associate member 
at the time of her death.

	Services for Mrs. Wilder were held at 2:00 p.m. on 
Monday under direction of the Klink Funeral Home in the First 
Congregational Church with the Rev. Raymond Shoup officiating. 
Burial was in Greenlawn cemetery at Orland, (Ind.).

Note:  The above information was found in Book #22 in the 
black notebook collection, #1 through #22, compiled by Audree 
Siebel Lewis, located at the Angola Public Library, Angola, 
Indiana.

Additional information:

Alice (Collins) Wilder, 04 Feb 1876 - 07 Apr 1961, daughter of 
Charles Harvey and Lucy (Carroll) Collins, married Harry Edgar 
Wilder, 15 Mar 1875 - 27 Jun 1954, son of Edson Adelman and 
Julie (Edgar) Wilder.

Dgtr:  Lorene Rose Wilder, 03 Nov 1907 - 27 Jan 1935.
Son:   Leon Wendell Wilder, born 06 Oct 1909.
Dgtr:  Katherine Nellie (Wilder) Wilt, born 23 Jan 1912, 
married Robert L. Wilt, 01 Jan 1910 - 16 Jun 1978.
Son:   Richard Collins Wilder, born 31 Aug 1915, married 
Frances E. King.