Son of Lalla Rookh Black and William A. Singleton

Grandson of Margaret Ann Congleton and William D. Singleton

Great-grandson of Mary Cherry and David Adam Singleton, Sr.

July 28, 1947

George Singleton Rites
Scheduled For Wednesday

Singleton Funeral
Here On Wednesday

FORMER SCHOOL COMM.
CHAIRMAN DIES WHILE
ON VISIT IN WOLFBORO

Funeral services for George R. Singleton, age 59, of 69 Saltonstall road; West Medford, former chairman of the Medford school committee and Navy veteran of World War I, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. in the Grace Episcopal Church. The Rev. Morris Arnold will officiate and burial will be in Oak Grove.
Singleton was fatally stricken with a heart attack Saturday night while visiting friends in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.
He was owner and manager of the former New England Welding Laboratory, Inc. He was a member of the Salvation Army, the Boston Kiwanis, the Medford Lodge of Elks, the American Legion Post of Norfolk, Va., and was also a Mason.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Mildred V. Singleton, and a daughter Mrs. William Perkins of Champaign, Ill. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m., in the Grace Episcopal Church Medford.

July 30, 1947 
Medford Daily Evening Mercury

GEORGE SINGLETON
Funeral services were held today for George Singleton former chairman of the Medford school committee and a man active for many years in the life of community. His sudden death while on a visit to New Hampshire came as a distinct shock and sorrow to the thousands who knew him.
The sympathy of the city goes to his family in this, their hour of tragedy. However, it may be a solace to them to know that George Singleton was a Medford resident who served his city well. Everywhere in the past few days we have heard comment on his qualities as a man. He will be missed.

July 31, 1947
Medford Daily Evening Mercury

Funeral services for George R. Singleton, former chairman of the School and Welfare Boards and proprietor of a Boston welding company who died while on a visit to friends at Wolfeboro were held Wednesday afternoon at Grace Episcopal Church with Rev. Morris F. Arnold officiating. Burial was in the family lot at Oak Grove Cemetery. Mayor Lawrence headed the delegation of city officials attending. Delegations from the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs, Elks, Masons and many other groups attended.
            

***Note death certificate lists place of death as Moultanboro, Carroll County, New Hampshire

Medford Mercury

Monday, August 11, 1947

Touching Tribute To singleton

Friend Tells Of His Many Good Deeds

Typical Of Many Mourning Loss Of Leading Citizen

     The Medford Mercury realizing the shock that an article in a local weekly newspaper was to the friends and acquaintances - and they were legion - of George Robert Singleton, who died Aug. 2nd, at Lake Winnepassaukee, N. H., took it upon itself, knowing the esteem in which the deceased was held by many in Medford, to delve into the splendid life of the man himself, so as to afford its readers an insight into the many and exemplary things this man had accomplished while living.

     A Mercury representative as a consequence, interviewed a few close friends of Mrs. Singleton who stated he would rather not have read of the manner of death so minutely and vividly portrayed in the local paper's article which he stated seemed to go out of its way to accomplish disdain for a man whose philantropies and worth while career certainly ??anything demanded an editorial of lasting and pleasant memory.

IT IS BEYOND ME

    "It is beyond me", says the party, who desires his name not to be mentioned although he is one of hundreds who have expressed themselves in the same manner why a Medford newspaper should have gone out of its way to explain in lurid detail, the going out of a man, who, himself, had been an editor or a publisher, would have done all in his power to minimize.

     "Chickens come home to roost," says the man regarding the man responsible.

     "Remembering the days of Mr. James D. P. Wingate, late publisher of the Medford Mercury, esteemed by all who knew him and how he treated the deaths of prominent individuals editorially and in the news, desirous at times of not hurting, but helping the relatives and friends of the deceased, I cannot help but contrast the policy of the other local paper with his fiar and understanding treatment of news of this  he further said.

     MERCURY'S FINE RECORD

     "Why the Medford Mercury still retains the good wishes and good will of most of the Medfore population is the fact that Mr. Wing?? grandson, Dana Wingate ???, present publisher, has continued the same splendid policy established by the man who was a true newspaperman and who lived at all times up to the traditions of the worthwhile local publisher, he stated, "