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Ila Webb
Ila Warner Webb was born in 1909 in Brodhead. She remembers going to the College High School in 1st grade and went on to graduate in 1927. Her dad was the oldest of nine children there. The family moved here when she was 6 (moved to Koshkonong, where her dad bought and sold cows. Then they moved to a farm on the east side of Whitewater. Ila married when she was 19 to Edward Webb who worked at the electric company. Ila was encouraged to go on to school after high school but she got a job at the telephone office instead, where Mr. Johnson was her manager. She worked there until they went dial, at which point she was chief operator. They had a son, Richard, in 1934. Richard later turned out to be a builder. Ila later worked at the electric company and various jobs. Eddie passed away in the early 1980s; he was a resident at Fairhaven. Ila and Eddie were outdoor people who always swam and camped, going up north.
She was just sick when old city hall got taken down; beforehand windows weren’t repaired and the rain would come in the building. She recalls Old Main Building burning: her son Richard was a fireman and worked on it and Gary Gephardt and Tim Dunlap from Fort were injured. At the time she lived on a duplex downtown at Center and 4th Street, near the Gephardts. When she was born she weighed 3 pounds; her mother wanted her to be Patricia, but her dad picked “Ila” because you can’t make a nickname out of it! They didn’t think she’d survive, but her mother gave her olive oil baths. She had an older sister, Adeline. Ila never swam at the swimming hole downtown, just the condensary. She learned to swim at the college, where they had a gymnasium with a big swimming pool. There’s a picture of the old gym at Fairhaven on the first floor (104E). The seating was all concrete and is still there.
She was just sick when old city hall got taken down; beforehand windows weren’t repaired and the rain would come in the building. She recalls Old Main Building burning: her son Richard was a fireman and worked on it and Gary Gephardt and Tim Dunlap from Fort were injured. At the time she lived on a duplex downtown at Center and 4th Street, near the Gephardts. When she was born she weighed 3 pounds; her mother wanted her to be Patricia, but her dad picked “Ila” because you can’t make a nickname out of it! They didn’t think she’d survive, but her mother gave her olive oil baths. She had an older sister, Adeline. Ila never swam at the swimming hole downtown, just the condensary. She learned to swim at the college, where they had a gymnasium with a big swimming pool. There’s a picture of the old gym at Fairhaven on the first floor (104E). The seating was all concrete and is still there.
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