ORA S. GAGE, 98, FORMERLY OF LEWISTON, POTLATCH
OREGON CITY, Ore. Ora S. Gage, 98, of Canby, Ore., a retired Potlatch Corp. employee formerly of Lewiston and Potlatch, Idaho, died Sunday of causes related to age at the Willamette Falls Hospital here.
He was born April 5, 1892, at Esperance, N.Y., the son of Orlando and Edith Gage. His parents died in 1908, and he and his brothers moved to Nebraska to live with their maternal grandmother.
He served with the U.S. Army from 1910 to 1913.
He and Florence Shawver were married Sept. 5, 1917, at Lyons, Neb. They farmed at Mapleton, Iowa, until moving to Idaho in 1935.
From 1935 until his retirement in 1957 he worked at Potlatch Corp. in the dry kilns department, first at Potlatch, Idaho, then at Lewiston. He also farmed.
On Sept. 5 of this year he and his wife celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary.
Survivors include his wife; five sons, Orland, Don and Duane, all of Lewiston, Bernard of Princeton, Idaho, and Byron of Seattle; three daughters, Marian Johnson and Elaine LaRue, both of Canby, and Pauline Becker of Waldport, Ore.; 33 grandchildren, 49 great-grandchildren and 23 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Patrick's Catholic Church at Canby with the Rev. Robert Cieslinski officiating. Burial will be 11 a.m. Friday at the Moscow Cemetery.
Everhart & Kent Funeral Home at Canby is in charge of arrangements.
Lewiston Morning Tribune
OREGON CITY, Ore. Ora S. Gage, 98, of Canby, Ore., a retired Potlatch Corp. employee formerly of Lewiston and Potlatch, Idaho, died Sunday of causes related to age at the Willamette Falls Hospital here.
He was born April 5, 1892, at Esperance, N.Y., the son of Orlando and Edith Gage. His parents died in 1908, and he and his brothers moved to Nebraska to live with their maternal grandmother.
He served with the U.S. Army from 1910 to 1913.
He and Florence Shawver were married Sept. 5, 1917, at Lyons, Neb. They farmed at Mapleton, Iowa, until moving to Idaho in 1935.
From 1935 until his retirement in 1957 he worked at Potlatch Corp. in the dry kilns department, first at Potlatch, Idaho, then at Lewiston. He also farmed.
On Sept. 5 of this year he and his wife celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary.
Survivors include his wife; five sons, Orland, Don and Duane, all of Lewiston, Bernard of Princeton, Idaho, and Byron of Seattle; three daughters, Marian Johnson and Elaine LaRue, both of Canby, and Pauline Becker of Waldport, Ore.; 33 grandchildren, 49 great-grandchildren and 23 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Patrick's Catholic Church at Canby with the Rev. Robert Cieslinski officiating. Burial will be 11 a.m. Friday at the Moscow Cemetery.
Everhart & Kent Funeral Home at Canby is in charge of arrangements.
Lewiston Morning Tribune
ORA S. GAGE, 98, FORMERLY OF LEWISTON, POTLATCH
OREGON CITY, Ore. Ora S. Gage, 98, of Canby, Ore., a retired Potlatch Corp. employee formerly of Lewiston and Potlatch, Idaho, died Sunday of causes related to age at the Willamette Falls Hospital here.
He was born April 5, 1892, at Esperance, N.Y., the son of Orlando and Edith Gage. His parents died in 1908, and he and his brothers moved to Nebraska to live with their maternal grandmother.
He served with the U.S. Army from 1910 to 1913.
He and Florence Shawver were married Sept. 5, 1917, at Lyons, Neb. They farmed at Mapleton, Iowa, until moving to Idaho in 1935.
From 1935 until his retirement in 1957 he worked at Potlatch Corp. in the dry kilns department, first at Potlatch, Idaho, then at Lewiston. He also farmed.
On Sept. 5 of this year he and his wife celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary.
Survivors include his wife; five sons, Orland, Don and Duane, all of Lewiston, Bernard of Princeton, Idaho, and Byron of Seattle; three daughters, Marian Johnson and Elaine LaRue, both of Canby, and Pauline Becker of Waldport, Ore.; 33 grandchildren, 49 great-grandchildren and 23 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Patrick's Catholic Church at Canby with the Rev. Robert Cieslinski officiating. Burial will be 11 a.m. Friday at the Moscow Cemetery.
Everhart & Kent Funeral Home at Canby is in charge of arrangements.
Lewiston Morning Tribune
OREGON CITY, Ore. Ora S. Gage, 98, of Canby, Ore., a retired Potlatch Corp. employee formerly of Lewiston and Potlatch, Idaho, died Sunday of causes related to age at the Willamette Falls Hospital here.
He was born April 5, 1892, at Esperance, N.Y., the son of Orlando and Edith Gage. His parents died in 1908, and he and his brothers moved to Nebraska to live with their maternal grandmother.
He served with the U.S. Army from 1910 to 1913.
He and Florence Shawver were married Sept. 5, 1917, at Lyons, Neb. They farmed at Mapleton, Iowa, until moving to Idaho in 1935.
From 1935 until his retirement in 1957 he worked at Potlatch Corp. in the dry kilns department, first at Potlatch, Idaho, then at Lewiston. He also farmed.
On Sept. 5 of this year he and his wife celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary.
Survivors include his wife; five sons, Orland, Don and Duane, all of Lewiston, Bernard of Princeton, Idaho, and Byron of Seattle; three daughters, Marian Johnson and Elaine LaRue, both of Canby, and Pauline Becker of Waldport, Ore.; 33 grandchildren, 49 great-grandchildren and 23 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Patrick's Catholic Church at Canby with the Rev. Robert Cieslinski officiating. Burial will be 11 a.m. Friday at the Moscow Cemetery.
Everhart & Kent Funeral Home at Canby is in charge of arrangements.
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