Samuel Brown Magner

Samuel and Etta (Boje) Magner Children

Son: Albert Lanville Magner

Born:  July 20, 1901 - Galesburg, Kansas - Neosho County
Died:  September 23, 1971 - Parsons, Kansas - Labette County
Age: 70 years

Interment: Mount Hope Cemetery - Galesburg, Kansas - Neosho County

Albert Lanville Magner married Jennie Doris Gager July 7, 1923 at Girard, Kansas in Crawford County.  Jennie Doris Gager is the daughter of Jesse Jay Gager and Nora Mae Hughes of Thayer, Kansas - Neosho County. 



Albert and Jennie (Gager) Magner Children: Six

Daughter: Luretta Doris Magner
Son: Albert (no middle name on birth certificate) Magner
Daughter: Noretta Blanch Magner
Son: Irvin Lee Magner
Son: Elford Neil Magner
Son: Lyle Treece Magner


I do not have a birth certificate for Albert Lanville Magner so I cannot properly address the debate about his actual name.  Was it Albert Lanville or Lanville Albert Magner?  Earlier signatures at bank and on farm deeds were L.A. Magner, but in later years he changed to Albert L. Magner.

Albert Lanville Magner is my grandfather and has his own Label on the Blog.  As I continue to post you will find Albert's life story along with his wife and children. Stay tuned.

Samuel Brown Magner

Daughter: Audlene Mae (Magner) Springer, husband Lawrence Matson


LAWRENCE DEAN MATSON

Lawrence Dean Matson age 89 passed away at the Olathe Medical Center Hospice House on February 23, 2015 following a stroke.  Larry was born January 23, 1926 to his parents Wilbur Lynes Matson and Fanny Fern Traylor Matson in Smith Center, Kansas.  Following service in the Navy, Larry graduated from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Statistics.  While at K-State he met his wife of 66 years, Neola Mae Springer.  They were married June 6, 1948.

Larry is survived by his wife, Neola; daughters Eliese (Paul) Holt, Shawnee, Kansas and Laurie (Homer) Matson-Ritter, Merriam, Kansas; and two sons, Dean (Dixie) Matson, Roseville, California, and Doug (Brenda) Matson, Norton, Kansas.  Other survivors include his eight grandchildren Britta Bustamante, Andrew Ritter, Kari Garison, Ashley Hughes, Lynn Matson, Lindsey Hunter and Wes Matson and 12 great-grandchildren.  He is preceded in death by his parents, his sister Rhea Lou Rohrer and brother, Robert Mead.

Larry was manager of the grocery store, Matson Boogaarts in Smith Center, retiring in 1981.  Larry had many hobbies but especially enjoyed square dancing, flying, RVing, and using his electrical and carpentry skills on Volunteers in Mission (VIM) projects throughout Kansas, South Dakota, Arizona, Texas and Tennessee.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. in the Wesley Chapel of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection (COR), Leawood, Kansas (135th & Roe.)  After moving to Shawnee, Kansas, Larry and Neola did not miss a Sunday watching COR's streamed church services from their residence at Clover Care Home. A graveside service will be held in Smith Center, Kansas at a later date.  Funeral arrangements are being coordinated by Amos Family Funeral Home, Shawnee, Kansas.

In lieu of flowers the family requests memorial gifts to be given to support VIM's work at Camp Lakeside with checks payable to Camp Lakeside, 300 E. Scott Lake Road, Scott City, Kansas  67871.

Samuel Brown Magner

Daughter: Audlene Mae (Magner) Springer

Audlene (Magner) and Douglas Springer Children

Samuel Brown Magner

Daughter: Audlene Mae (Magner) Springer

Audlene (Magner) and Douglas Springer Children
Daughter: Neola Mae Springer
Born: August 6, 1927 - Galesburg, Kansas - Neosho County
Married: June 6, 1944
Spouse: Lawrence Dean Matson
Born: January 23, 1926 - Smith Center, Kansas - Smith County
Died: February 23, 2015 - Olathe, Kansas - Johnson County
Age 89

My dad's cousin, Burnill Clark gave me contact information about Neola in 2011.  We shared some emails after I asked her about memories she had about growing up in Galesburg.

July 26, 2011 - I do not remember a lot about my Grandfather, Samuel Magner, but one distinct memory I have is when he would bring my Grandmother Etta Mae Magner to our country farm house.  He was always very impatient when he would come back to pick her up.  Usually he would go each morning to Uncle Albert's house just down the road from us as it had been his farm and would drop off Grandmother at our house.  He would return each afternoon and take her home. When he returned and got just south of our house, he would start honking and she was to be at the mailbox when he got there.

I have more memories of Aunt Jennie, Uncle Albert's wife. She and Uncle Albert lived on a farm about 2 miles west of us, back towards Galesburg.  I remember Jennie as a very happy person.

I also have memories of my cousin- your Aunt Luretta.  Luretta would ride a horse to our house and then ride to school with us in the car. She was just a little older than me I think. Sometimes we would ride the pony and sometimes our bikes, but usually Dad took us.

Another memory I have about being in school was driving our Model-T car to the school festival in Erie, Kansas. It was fairly warm so Mother and I left our new spring coats in the car. We went to the carnival and came back and someone had stolen our coats. This was probably in the late 1930s and it was often that cars were stolen and stripped for parts.

My favorite memory of the festival was winding the May Pole. I don't think we ever won but it was always great fun to learn how to do it just so.

Samuel Brown Magner

Daughter: Audlene Mae (Magner) Springer

Audlene (Magner) and Douglas Springer Children

Son; Eldon Ray Springer

Parsons (Kansas) Sun Newspaper
Monday, October 31, 1994 - Page 4

ELDON R. SPRINGER
THAYER -- Eldon R. Springer, 70 of Thayer, Kansas died at 4:55 p.m. Sunday, October 30, 1994 at St. Francis Hospital, Tulsa, Oklahoma where he entered earlier that day.  He had been ill for a short time but his death was unexpected.

He was born June 10, 1924 in Galesburg to Douglas and Audlene (Magner) Springer.  He grew up in the Galesburg area, graduating from Galesburg High School in 1942.  He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II then returned to the Galesburg area, where he worked in construction and farming.  In 1966 he moved to Thayer, where he owned and operated Fireside Inn.

Mr. Springer was a member of the George L. Hendricks Post No. 102, American Legion in Erie and the Cecil J. Meeker Post 1654, Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chanute.  He was an avid camper and fisherman and enjoyed traveling.

Survivors include two sons; Richard of Girard, Kansas and Ernie of Haysville, Kansas; three daughters, Donna Graham of Goddard, Kansas, Vickie Trembly of Chanute, Kansas and Cindy Johnson of Wichita, Kansas; 12 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, a friend and companion, Eutha (Heck) Turley of the home; a brother, Jean of Grove, Oklahoma and a sister, Neola Mae Matson of Smith Center, Kansas.

The service will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Pierce-Carson-Wall Funeral Home of Erie, Kansas with Darin Mabe, pastor officiating.  Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery at Galesburg with military rites conducted by the Chanute VFW Post 1654.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.  The family suggests memorials to the American Cancer Society.

Headstone Note: CM3 US Navy - WWII

Samuel Brown Magner

Daughter: Audlene Mae (Magner) Springer

Audlene (Magner) and Douglas Springer Children

Son: Jean Douglas Springer


Parsons (Kansas) Sun Newspaper
Wednesday, December 6, 2000 - Page 4

JEAN D. SPRINGER
GROVE, OKLAHOMA -- Jean Douglas Springer, 78 of Grove, died Monday, December 4, 2000 at the Grove General Hospital.

He was born March 4, 1922 at Galesburg to Douglas Granville and Audlene Mae (Magner) Springer.  He served in the United States Navy in Atlantic and Pacific campaigns, during World War II.  He was a self-employed auto mechanic and a farmer.

He married Iris Imogene Crumrine on December 2, 1946 at Ketchum, Idaho.  They moved to Grove in 1978 from Cherryvale, Kansas.  She survives of the home.

He was a member of the Lions Club, Kiwanis Club, Veterans of Foreign Wars and was a deacon of the First Christian Church of Grove and Cherryvale.

Other survivors include two sons; Jerry Douglas Springer of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Scott Springer of Joplin, Missouri; one sister Neola M. Matson of Smith Center, Kansas; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

The service will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home in Grove with Wayne Shaw officiating.  There will be a graveside service at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Mount Hope Cemetery at Galesburg, Kansas.

Memorials to the American Cancer Society may be sent to the Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home, 711 South Main, P.O. Box 450460, Grove, Oklahoma, 74345-0460.

Samuel Brown Magner

Daughter: Audlene Mae (Magner) Springer, husband Douglas G. Springer


Chanute (Kansas) Tribune Newspaper
Friday, May 8, 1970 - Page 6

DOUGLAS G. SPRINGER

Douglas G. Springer, 76, Galesburg died Thursday night at the Labette Medical Center at Parsons.  He had been ill since Sunday when he suffered a fractured hip.

Born September 28, 1893, at Chanute.  He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Springer.  He had lived in the Galesburg community since moving there with the family as a boy.

He married Audlene Magner April 30, 1919.

He was a member of the Galesburg Christian Church; a veteran of World War I and a member of the World War I Barracks of Chanute and the Erie American Legion.

Survivors include his widow, of the home; a daughter, Mrs. Larry (Neola Mae) Matson, Smith Center, Kansas; two sons, Jean Springer, Cherryvale, Kansas and Eldon Springer, Thayer, Kansas; 11 grandchildren and a great-grandchild and two sisters; Mrs. Rena Crumrine, Hazelton, Idaho and Mrs. J. B. Brown, Dearing, Kansas.

The funeral will be Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Galesburg Christian Church with the Rev. Allen Hannaford officiating.  Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery, Galesburg.

Pierce Funeral Home at Erie, Kansas is in charge.


A BIG thank you to Cheryl (Brooks) White for this obituary!