"W" OBITUARIES
Cape Girardeau County Missouri Genealogy Trails
Lakewood, CO--ADELL
WAGERS,
73, of Lakewood died Nov. 5, 1997. Services were Nov. 7. Mrs. Wagers
was born in Gordonville, Mo., on July 24, 1924. She married Forrest B.
Wagers, 1946. She was a homemaker. Survivors include daughters Sharon
Gaebl of Denver, Carol Santangelo of Lakewood; son Lance of Texas;
sister Lavana Lampe of California; three grandchildren.
--Rocky
Mountain News (CO) - November 9, 1997
Mrs. Ozias Walker Succumbs at Delta
MRS. AUGUSTA WALKER, 75 years old, wife of Ozias Walker of Delta, died of indigestion at 4 a. m. today at the family home. She had been seriously ill
since Sunday night.
The body was removed to the Seabaugh Funeral Home and will be taken to the Baptist Church at Delta at 10 o'clock Friday morning.
Funeral services will be conducted there at 1 o'clock in the afternoon by Rev. James Bain of Advance and burial will be in a cemetery at Brownwood.
Mrs. Walker was born and reared in the Crossroads community, but spent much of her life in the vicinity of Brownwood.
The family had resided at Delta in recent years.
She is survived by her husband, two sons, James and John Walker; two daughters, Mrs. Hershall Holland and Mrs. Fred Sawyers of Oxford, O.;
three brothers, Ed and Wm. Bornemann of Delta and Albert Bornemann of Swinton, and 22 grandchildren.
Source: Southeast Missourian, Oct. 23, 1941, submitted.
OZIAS WALKER, 82, Delta Farmer, Dies
Ozias Walker, 82 years old, a farmer of the Delta community died at 11 a. m. today at his farm home.
The body was brought to the Seabough Funeral Home and funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the cemetery
at Brownwood. Rev. James Bain will have charge of the rites.
Mr. Walker was born Jan. 11, 1861, at Marion, Ind., and came to Cape County when but 8 years old. He spent all of his life on a farm near Delta.
His wife, Mrs. Augusta Walker, died Oct. 23, 1942. (Note: See her obit; date 1941)
He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Minnie Sawyer and Mrs. Emma Hollands, both of Dayton, O., and two sons, James and John Walker of Delta.
Source: Southeast Missourian, January 29, 1943, submitted.
RAYMOND,
IL– ALTA
A. WEDEKIND, 92, of Raymond died Wednesday, March 10,
1999, at Hillsboro (IL) Area Hospital.
She was born Feb. 3, 1907, in Gordonville, Mo., the daughter of August
and Anna Grebe Eggimann. She married Lawrence Wedekind in 1928 in
Gordonville, Mo.; he died in 1981. Mrs. Wedekind, a homemaker, was a
member of Raymond United Methodist Church, where she was a Sunday
school teacher, Montgomery County Farm Bureau, United Methodist Women's
Organization and past president of WSCS. Survivors: three sons, Robert
Wedekind of Litchfield, (IL)Gerald Wedekind of Raymond and James
Wedekind of Groveland,(IL); 12 grandchildren; eight
great-grandchildren; a brother, Norman Eggimann of Jackson, Mo.; and a
sister, Alice Nussbaum of Jackson, Mo.
Services: 11 a.m. Monday, Raymond United Methodist Church, the Rev.
Kent Lolling officiating. Burial: Asbury Cemetery, Raymond.
Hough Funeral Home in Raymond is in charge of arrangements. --State
Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - March 11, 1999
Mount
Holly, PA--DOROTHY
GROSS WEST, 67, of Mount Holly, died Friday at home.
Mrs. West was born in Whitewater, Mo. She attended Boston University
School of Nursing and worked as the school nurse for the Westampton
School. Mrs. West was a member of the Crossroads Programs Inc. of
Burlington County and several professional nursing organizations. She
was an Air Force veteran and served during the Korean War.
Survivors: her husband, Charles E.; a son, Alan D. of Douglasville,
Ga.; a daughter, Sara Heald of Herkimer, N.Y.; five grandchildren, and
a brother, George Gross of St. Louis. Services: private. Lee Givnish
Funeral Home, Mount Holly. --Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA)
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