LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
February 16, 1961
JOHN SAMUEL GASAWAY
---A former La Plata resident, John Samuel Gasaway, sixty-four, of Chillicothe, Illinois, died in the Santa Fe Hospital in Topeka, Kansas last Wednesday.
---Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 2:00 in the Wilson Funeral Home at La Plata with Rev. Clyde Miller officiating. Burial was in the La Plata Cemetery.
---The son of Sam and Mary (Moore) Gasaway, he was born at Elmer on April 23, 1896. He married Aldena Thomas in Marceline on October 12, 1919 and to this marriage two daughters were born.
---Surviving are his wife; one daughter, Mary Brown of Chillicothe, Illinois; one grandson, Steven Brown, and two sisters, Alice Barry and Anna Brown, both of La Plata.
---He was preceded in death by an infant daughter, his parents, one sister and three brothers.
---Mr. Gasaway had lived in Illinois for the past twenty-seven years and was a retired section foreman for the Santa Fe Railroad. He was a member of the Methodist Church in La Plata, Maconic lodge and the Scottish Rite Consistory of Peoria, Illinois, the American Legion Post No. 9 and No. 178 Order of the Eastern Star.
---Mr. Gasaway was a veteran of World War I.
---Masonic services were held at the funeral home and a Legion guard served at the cemetery.
---Bearers were Dewey Williamson, Aldace Naughton, Sr., Ray Sees, William Naughton, Lewis Fulmer and Clifford Wares.
February 16, 1961
JOHN SAMUEL GASAWAY
---A former La Plata resident, John Samuel Gasaway, sixty-four, of Chillicothe, Illinois, died in the Santa Fe Hospital in Topeka, Kansas last Wednesday.
---Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 2:00 in the Wilson Funeral Home at La Plata with Rev. Clyde Miller officiating. Burial was in the La Plata Cemetery.
---The son of Sam and Mary (Moore) Gasaway, he was born at Elmer on April 23, 1896. He married Aldena Thomas in Marceline on October 12, 1919 and to this marriage two daughters were born.
---Surviving are his wife; one daughter, Mary Brown of Chillicothe, Illinois; one grandson, Steven Brown, and two sisters, Alice Barry and Anna Brown, both of La Plata.
---He was preceded in death by an infant daughter, his parents, one sister and three brothers.
---Mr. Gasaway had lived in Illinois for the past twenty-seven years and was a retired section foreman for the Santa Fe Railroad. He was a member of the Methodist Church in La Plata, Maconic lodge and the Scottish Rite Consistory of Peoria, Illinois, the American Legion Post No. 9 and No. 178 Order of the Eastern Star.
---Mr. Gasaway was a veteran of World War I.
---Masonic services were held at the funeral home and a Legion guard served at the cemetery.
---Bearers were Dewey Williamson, Aldace Naughton, Sr., Ray Sees, William Naughton, Lewis Fulmer and Clifford Wares.
LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
February 16, 1961
JOHN SAMUEL GASAWAY
---A former La Plata resident, John Samuel Gasaway, sixty-four, of Chillicothe, Illinois, died in the Santa Fe Hospital in Topeka, Kansas last Wednesday.
---Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 2:00 in the Wilson Funeral Home at La Plata with Rev. Clyde Miller officiating. Burial was in the La Plata Cemetery.
---The son of Sam and Mary (Moore) Gasaway, he was born at Elmer on April 23, 1896. He married Aldena Thomas in Marceline on October 12, 1919 and to this marriage two daughters were born.
---Surviving are his wife; one daughter, Mary Brown of Chillicothe, Illinois; one grandson, Steven Brown, and two sisters, Alice Barry and Anna Brown, both of La Plata.
---He was preceded in death by an infant daughter, his parents, one sister and three brothers.
---Mr. Gasaway had lived in Illinois for the past twenty-seven years and was a retired section foreman for the Santa Fe Railroad. He was a member of the Methodist Church in La Plata, Maconic lodge and the Scottish Rite Consistory of Peoria, Illinois, the American Legion Post No. 9 and No. 178 Order of the Eastern Star.
---Mr. Gasaway was a veteran of World War I.
---Masonic services were held at the funeral home and a Legion guard served at the cemetery.
---Bearers were Dewey Williamson, Aldace Naughton, Sr., Ray Sees, William Naughton, Lewis Fulmer and Clifford Wares.
February 16, 1961
JOHN SAMUEL GASAWAY
---A former La Plata resident, John Samuel Gasaway, sixty-four, of Chillicothe, Illinois, died in the Santa Fe Hospital in Topeka, Kansas last Wednesday.
---Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 2:00 in the Wilson Funeral Home at La Plata with Rev. Clyde Miller officiating. Burial was in the La Plata Cemetery.
---The son of Sam and Mary (Moore) Gasaway, he was born at Elmer on April 23, 1896. He married Aldena Thomas in Marceline on October 12, 1919 and to this marriage two daughters were born.
---Surviving are his wife; one daughter, Mary Brown of Chillicothe, Illinois; one grandson, Steven Brown, and two sisters, Alice Barry and Anna Brown, both of La Plata.
---He was preceded in death by an infant daughter, his parents, one sister and three brothers.
---Mr. Gasaway had lived in Illinois for the past twenty-seven years and was a retired section foreman for the Santa Fe Railroad. He was a member of the Methodist Church in La Plata, Maconic lodge and the Scottish Rite Consistory of Peoria, Illinois, the American Legion Post No. 9 and No. 178 Order of the Eastern Star.
---Mr. Gasaway was a veteran of World War I.
---Masonic services were held at the funeral home and a Legion guard served at the cemetery.
---Bearers were Dewey Williamson, Aldace Naughton, Sr., Ray Sees, William Naughton, Lewis Fulmer and Clifford Wares.
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