Albert Lanville Magner
Jennie Doris Gager Family Tree
Photo of Jesse and Nora (Hughes) Gager Family after all were married~
Date of Photo is unknown
Photo Source: Noretta (Magner) Caldwell
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Albert Lanville Magner
Jennie Doris Gager Family Tree
Jesse and Nora (Hughes) Gager Children: (7)
Daughter: Opal Mae Gager
Born: March 24, 1919 - Thayer, Kansas - Neosho County
Married: March 23, 1940
Spouse: Ralph W. Minkler "Red"
Died: June 26, 1988 - Kincaid, Kansas - Anderson County
Interment: Kincaid Cemetery - Kincaid, Kansas - Anderson County
Marriage Source: Find-a-Grave on their headstone
Death Source: Social Security Death Index - Ancestry.com
Spouse: Ralph W. Minkler "Red"
Born: August 6, 1918
Died: November 29, 2003 - Kincaid, Kansas - Anderson County
Interment: Kincaid Cemetery - Kincaid, Kansas - Anderson County
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Daughter: Dorothy Juanita Gager Obituary
The Topeka Capital-Journal
Topeka, Kansas
9 February 2002
Dorothy Weirich
GARNETT - Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the First Baptist Church in Garnett for Dorothy J. Weirich, 92, Garnett, Kansas. She died Thursday, February 7, 2002 at a Garnett Hospital.
Mrs. Weirich and her husband owned and operated Weirich Grocery in Bush City for several years.
She was born July 28, 1909, at Thayer, the daughter of Jesse and Nora Hughes Gager. She was reared in Thayer and moved to Garnett from Bush City in 1981.
Mrs. Weirich was a member of the First Baptist Church in Garnett and American Baptist Women Ministries.
She married Phillip Lowell Weirich on April 27, 1929 in Thayer. He preceded her in death, December 4, 1994 at age 86.
Survivors include two sons, Gene Weirich, Garnett and Leslie Weirich, Augusta; and one daughter, Dolores Prather, Kincaid.
Obituary Source: Susan (Magner) Van Vleck, author of this Blog
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Daughter: Zella Nora Gager
Born: June 11, 1906 - Thayer, Kansas - Neosho County
Married: March 1927
Spouse: Ira Lester Hizey
Died: May 19, 1960 - Argo, Illinois - Cook County
Interment: Mount Hope Cemetery - Galesburg, Kansas - Neosho County
Zella was born and raised in Thayer, Kansas; married Ira L. Hizey in March 1927. They lived in Parsons, Kansas where she worked at the Kansas Ordinance Plant during World War II. She and Ira separated when he was in the Merchant Marines. They had one daughter, Melvina Lee. Zella moved to Argo, Illinois where she died at he age of 53 due to stomach cancer.
Note: Ira Lester Hizey father's name is George Amos Hizey
Daughter: Mary Eliza Gager
Born: September 6, 1907 - Thayer, Kansas - Neosho County
Married: November 26, 1947 - Neosho County, Kansas
Spouse: Ennis Mortimer Mendenhall "Mort"
Died: March 1, 2000 - Jacksonville, Florida - St. John's County
Interment: Unknown at this time
Daughter: Dorothy Juanita Gager
Born: July 28, 1909 - Thayer, Kansas - Neosho County
Married: April 27, 1929 - Thayer, Kansas - Neosho County
Spouse: Phillip Lowell Weirich
Died: February 7, 2002 - Garnett, Kansas - Anderson County
Interment: Garnett Cemetery - Garnett, Kansas - Anderson County
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Jesse and Nora (Hughes) Gager Children (7)
Daughter: Jennie Doris Gager
Born: August 13, 1900 - Thayer, Kansas - Neosho County
Married: July 7, 1923 - Girard, Kansas - Crawford County
Spouse: Albert Lanville Magner
Died: July 16, 1999 - Chanute, Kansas - Neosho County
Interment: Mount Hope Cemetery - Galesburg, Kansas - Neosho County
Daughter: Eva Elfa Gager
Born: June 17, 1902 - Thayer, Kansas - Neosho County
Married: November 10, 1923 - Thayer, Kansas - Neosho County
Spouse: William Bertsel Kramer
Died: May 30, 1992 - Iola, Kansas - Allen County
Interment: Mount Hope Cemetery - Galesburg, Kansas - Neosho County
Son: Floyd Jessie Gager
Born: September 11, 1903 - Thayer, Kansas - Neosho County
Married: Never
Died: June 4, 1970 - Chanute, Kansas - Neosho County
Interment: Mount Hope Cemetery - Galesburg, Kansas - Neosho County
When Floyd was six months old, he fell off a high feather bed. He passed out and was severely hurt. Floyd did not crawl or walk until he was three years old. He was 'retarded,' the word used back then where today we say mentally challenged. Floyd died at the Bryant Nursing Home in Chanute, Kansas at the age of 66 due to heart failure.
Monday, July 9, 2018
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Nora Mae (Hughes) Gager Obituary - 2 of 2
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.
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