Susan Magner's Family Blog

Thursday, September 7, 2017

Albert Lanville Magner

Family Photos of Albert and Jennie (Gager) Magner

Albert & Jennie Magner Wedding Picture

Jennie & Albert on the Magner Farm - 1938 Oldsmobile

Albert & Jennie - 1970 Christmas

45th Wedding Anniversary

Magner Farm with Children and Grandchildren

Albert Lanville Magner

Albert Lanville Magner and Jennie Doris Gager Marriage Certificate

Source: Magner Family History & Gager Family History Book
Authors - Noretta (Magner) Caldwell and daughters

Jennie (Gager) Magner's words from the booklet, Many Memories Jennie --
I was married July 7, 1923. Everyone kept asking when are you to be married? I think you're already married, so Albert and I thought we had the name, so might as well do it. We went to Girard saying we were looking for furniture. We were married and afterwards went to a small café across from the courthouse and had watermelon to celebrate the event. When we returned home, he went to his parent's home and me to mine. His parents and younger sister Mildred were to move into Galesburg as soon as the house they had bought was ready to live in.

After we had been married a month or so Albert's mother found the marriage license in his overcoat pocket. Horrors - "Did you have to marry?" I think it was a big disappointment to a lot of people in the neighborhood that it wasn't so. Ha!

Albert Lanville Magner

Albert Lanville Magner's wife, Jennie Doris Gager

August 1966 - Jennie & Albert
enjoyed camping and fishing trips

Above, Grandma, Jennie loved working
in her vegetable garden
Below left, Jennie celebrating a birthday with her six children

Jennie Magner with my dad, Albert Magner, Jr. on the farm

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Albert Lanville Magner

1921 - Jennie Gager's Emporia Teachers College Graduation Class - Emporia, Kansas

Photo Source: Albert Magner, Jr. (my Dad)

Left to Right (standing) Dorothy Stall, Anna Sutcliffe Whal, Blanche Tuttle Bergtol, James Robins, Mary Sutcliffe Edwards and Ruth Pownall Rash

Seated: Veola Adams Beckman, Bertha McFarland, Ada Finch Thurman, JENNIE GAGER and Alma Leonard Robinson

Albert Lanville Magner

Jennie Doris (Gager) Magner

Early 1920s Photo Source: Albert Magner, my Dad

Jennie (Gager) Magner's own words from the booklet, "Many Memories"

I graduated in 1921 and while attending a basketball game with Eva (my sister) and her date, Wes Holstein, Gladys Hughes and Bill Beach, I had a blind date with Albert Magner, my future husband. Note: Jennie and Albert lived just seven miles from each other

I signed a contract to teach at a country school, Shiloh about six miles from home. I went to Teachers College at Emporia Kansas for two months, June and July. Received a teacher's certificate for one year. I borrowed $100.00 from Thayer Kansas State Bank to pay for board, room and books. Good old days.

Back to my first teaching job. I stayed home and drove Nellie, the slowest mare on earth to the school house. I repaid the loan at the bank in two months, also paid the board bill for Eva and Dorothy (her sisters) staying in Thayer, Kansas.

My Personal Note: Jennie taught school for two years before marrying Albert Magner. After she was married she was kept busy raising their six children, cultivating a vegetable garden and raising chickens, canning their homegrown food, sewing clothes and other chores.

**Jennie wrote "Many Memories" and her daughter Noretta typed and assembled the book.