Anna Wagner's Obituary: From the Ashland Daily Tidings, 7/31/59 (31 July 1959)
"FINAL RITES FOR PIONEER ON THURSDAY"
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Anna Anderson Wagner, daughter of Jackson county pioneers, Melissa and Jesse Marion Wagner [sic: should be Melissa and Jesse Marion ANDERSON], died early Tuesday morning in the family home on Oak street [153 Oak Street, Ashland, OR, now the McCall House B&B] where she had lived during most of her 92 years. Final rites will be conducted Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in Trinity Episcopal church by the Rev. John L. Thompson and burial will be in the family plot in Mountain View cemetery.
The casket will not be open at the church but those who wish to pay their respects may do so between 7 and 9 o'clock this evening at Litwiller's downtown chapel on North Main street. Mrs. Wagner is to be buried in the lovely dress she wore in 1887 when she married John Marshall Wagner. The family asks that in lieu of flowers contributions be made to the memorial fun of Trinity church.
During Mrs. Wagner's entire life she was active in civic and church affairs of Ashland. She was a member of Alpha chapter, OES, having been initiated in 1885; of Mount Ashland chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and of the Ashland Study club. She was the first initiate of Chapter AC, PEO Sisterhood.
Mrs. Wagner was born Jan. 4, 1865, on the family homestead near Talent. Her parents died when she was an infant and she was adopted by her aunt, the late Mary E. McCall.
Surviving Mrs. Wagner are her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Sommer of Ashland,; two sons, Caroll Wagner, Los Angeles, and Robert Wagner, Valley View; five grandchildren: Katherine Merriam, Salem; Margaret Ann Kellogg, San Diego, Calif.; Susanne Koford, Berkelely, Calif.; Richard Sommer, Sacramento, Calif., and Maragaret Kessell, Columbus, Ohio; by eight great grandchildren, and by her foster sister, Miss Lydia McCall, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Mabel Kinney, both of Ashland.
"FINAL RITES FOR PIONEER ON THURSDAY"
[corrections & notations to copy made in brackets]
Anna Anderson Wagner, daughter of Jackson county pioneers, Melissa and Jesse Marion Wagner [sic: should be Melissa and Jesse Marion ANDERSON], died early Tuesday morning in the family home on Oak street [153 Oak Street, Ashland, OR, now the McCall House B&B] where she had lived during most of her 92 years. Final rites will be conducted Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in Trinity Episcopal church by the Rev. John L. Thompson and burial will be in the family plot in Mountain View cemetery.
The casket will not be open at the church but those who wish to pay their respects may do so between 7 and 9 o'clock this evening at Litwiller's downtown chapel on North Main street. Mrs. Wagner is to be buried in the lovely dress she wore in 1887 when she married John Marshall Wagner. The family asks that in lieu of flowers contributions be made to the memorial fun of Trinity church.
During Mrs. Wagner's entire life she was active in civic and church affairs of Ashland. She was a member of Alpha chapter, OES, having been initiated in 1885; of Mount Ashland chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and of the Ashland Study club. She was the first initiate of Chapter AC, PEO Sisterhood.
Mrs. Wagner was born Jan. 4, 1865, on the family homestead near Talent. Her parents died when she was an infant and she was adopted by her aunt, the late Mary E. McCall.
Surviving Mrs. Wagner are her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Sommer of Ashland,; two sons, Caroll Wagner, Los Angeles, and Robert Wagner, Valley View; five grandchildren: Katherine Merriam, Salem; Margaret Ann Kellogg, San Diego, Calif.; Susanne Koford, Berkelely, Calif.; Richard Sommer, Sacramento, Calif., and Maragaret Kessell, Columbus, Ohio; by eight great grandchildren, and by her foster sister, Miss Lydia McCall, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Mabel Kinney, both of Ashland.
Anna Wagner's Obituary: From the Ashland Daily Tidings, 7/31/59 (31 July 1959)
"FINAL RITES FOR PIONEER ON THURSDAY"
[corrections & notations to copy made in brackets]
Anna Anderson Wagner, daughter of Jackson county pioneers, Melissa and Jesse Marion Wagner [sic: should be Melissa and Jesse Marion ANDERSON], died early Tuesday morning in the family home on Oak street [153 Oak Street, Ashland, OR, now the McCall House B&B] where she had lived during most of her 92 years. Final rites will be conducted Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in Trinity Episcopal church by the Rev. John L. Thompson and burial will be in the family plot in Mountain View cemetery.
The casket will not be open at the church but those who wish to pay their respects may do so between 7 and 9 o'clock this evening at Litwiller's downtown chapel on North Main street. Mrs. Wagner is to be buried in the lovely dress she wore in 1887 when she married John Marshall Wagner. The family asks that in lieu of flowers contributions be made to the memorial fun of Trinity church.
During Mrs. Wagner's entire life she was active in civic and church affairs of Ashland. She was a member of Alpha chapter, OES, having been initiated in 1885; of Mount Ashland chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and of the Ashland Study club. She was the first initiate of Chapter AC, PEO Sisterhood.
Mrs. Wagner was born Jan. 4, 1865, on the family homestead near Talent. Her parents died when she was an infant and she was adopted by her aunt, the late Mary E. McCall.
Surviving Mrs. Wagner are her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Sommer of Ashland,; two sons, Caroll Wagner, Los Angeles, and Robert Wagner, Valley View; five grandchildren: Katherine Merriam, Salem; Margaret Ann Kellogg, San Diego, Calif.; Susanne Koford, Berkelely, Calif.; Richard Sommer, Sacramento, Calif., and Maragaret Kessell, Columbus, Ohio; by eight great grandchildren, and by her foster sister, Miss Lydia McCall, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Mabel Kinney, both of Ashland.
"FINAL RITES FOR PIONEER ON THURSDAY"
[corrections & notations to copy made in brackets]
Anna Anderson Wagner, daughter of Jackson county pioneers, Melissa and Jesse Marion Wagner [sic: should be Melissa and Jesse Marion ANDERSON], died early Tuesday morning in the family home on Oak street [153 Oak Street, Ashland, OR, now the McCall House B&B] where she had lived during most of her 92 years. Final rites will be conducted Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in Trinity Episcopal church by the Rev. John L. Thompson and burial will be in the family plot in Mountain View cemetery.
The casket will not be open at the church but those who wish to pay their respects may do so between 7 and 9 o'clock this evening at Litwiller's downtown chapel on North Main street. Mrs. Wagner is to be buried in the lovely dress she wore in 1887 when she married John Marshall Wagner. The family asks that in lieu of flowers contributions be made to the memorial fun of Trinity church.
During Mrs. Wagner's entire life she was active in civic and church affairs of Ashland. She was a member of Alpha chapter, OES, having been initiated in 1885; of Mount Ashland chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and of the Ashland Study club. She was the first initiate of Chapter AC, PEO Sisterhood.
Mrs. Wagner was born Jan. 4, 1865, on the family homestead near Talent. Her parents died when she was an infant and she was adopted by her aunt, the late Mary E. McCall.
Surviving Mrs. Wagner are her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Sommer of Ashland,; two sons, Caroll Wagner, Los Angeles, and Robert Wagner, Valley View; five grandchildren: Katherine Merriam, Salem; Margaret Ann Kellogg, San Diego, Calif.; Susanne Koford, Berkelely, Calif.; Richard Sommer, Sacramento, Calif., and Maragaret Kessell, Columbus, Ohio; by eight great grandchildren, and by her foster sister, Miss Lydia McCall, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Mabel Kinney, both of Ashland.
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