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Sunday, April 23, 1939
Thayer (Kansas) News


LAST RITES FOR MRS. GAGER

A large crowd attended the services Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock for Mrs. Jesse Gager at the M.E. (Methodist Episcopal) Church.

Services were in charge of the Reverend Ira Nicklin and the Reverend L. C. Swan of Erie, Kansas. 

Music was furnished by a quartet composed of Mr. and Mrs. Arch Walt, Mrs. A.E. Nell and Reverend Nicklin with Mrs. Milo Hazen at the piano.  They sang, "Jesus Lover of My Soul," "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," and "No Night There."

Pallbearers were: George Zugmier, Albert Harms, M.A. Volkmann, Will Crockett, Frank Ross and Sam Sharples.

Burial was at the Galesburg cemetery with the Thayer Circle Ladies of G.A.R. in charge of the burial service.

Out of town relatives and friends who attended the funeral services for Mrs. Jesse Gager Saturday afternoon were: Mrs. Nellie Darling, Mr. and Mrs. Fenton and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tannehill of Cherryvale, Kansas; Art Moore of Chanute, Kansas; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Moore and Velma and Mrs. Nannie Waters and Ross of Erie, Kansas; Mr. and Mrs. M.B. Packer of Bartlesville, Oklahoma; Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Lunn, Mrs. Alma Lunn, Mrs. Hattie Essig, Ira Modsett, Mr. and Mrs. Ashford Modsett and Mr. and Mrs. Cicero Modsett of Parsons, Kansas; Mr. and Mrs. Hansel Shepard and family and Enos Shepard of New Mexico; Mrs. Ella Ramsey of Wichita, Kansas and W.O. Hughes of Buckingham, Colorado.

Obituary Source: Susan (Magner) Van Vleck, author of this Blog

Note: I did ask my cousin, Karen about Nora Gager's major operation and was told that she had stomach cancer.  Sadly, she passed after the 2nd surgical treatment for that illness.