John Park Bigham

The Topeka Daily Capital, Sunday, February 4, 1951

John Park BIGHAM, 72, Mildford, died Saturday morning in a Junction City hospital.

He was born September 23, 1878, in Jefferson County and worked for 30 years as a boilermaker on railroads. He later moved to a farm near Ozawkie and to farms in the Meriden and Dover communities. He retired several years ago and lived at Milford.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Myrtle BIGHAM of the home; two sons, Harold of Canby, Ore., and Virgil of Milford; two daughters, Mrs. Mildred KINMAN of Guthrie Center, Iowa; and Mrs. Hazel BADGER of Milford; a brother, Millard BIGHAM, Loveland, Colo.; 13 grandchildren.

Services will be in Topeka Tuesday with burial in Rochester Cemetery.