Morning Sentinel (Waterville, Me.), 6 Aug 1948, p. 16: Mrs. N. Mildred Oak (Skowhegan Local News).

Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).

MRS. N. MILDRED OAK

The death of Mrs. Nellie Mildred Oak, age 46, wife of Irvin Oak, West Front Street, occurred Wednesday afternoon at a Waterville hospital, where she had been a patient for one day. She had been in frail health for a period of time.

She was born in Madison on May 12, 1902, the daughter of Lewis and Lillace Ames Russell.

Mrs. Oak is survived besides her husband, by three sons, Allan [Eugene], Wendell M., and Ivan R. Oak, all [of] Skowhegan, her father, Lewis Russell of Sidney, two sisters, Mrs. Leander Foss of Madison and Mrs. Henry Foss of Winslow. There [a further line, likely naming half-sisters and funeral arrangements, is cut off at the right edge of this crop — not captured].