LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
AUGUST 22, 1946
EZEKIEL GASAWAY
---Ezekiel Gasaway, 173 West Maind Street, an engineer in the Galesburg, Illinois City Water Department where he had been employed thirty-one years, died of a heart attack and kidney ailment Saturday afternoon about 5:00 at St. Marys Hospital. Mr. Gasaway's condition was believed to have shown improvement but a relapse in early afternoon resulted in his death a few hours later.
---Before becoming a city employee, Mr. Gasaway was a locomotive fireman for the Santa Fe Railroad.
---He was born September 12, 1888 in Hickory County, Missouri and resided at La Plata until about twenty years ago. Since then Galesburg has been his home.
---Survivors are the wife, Grace, to whom Mr. Gasaway was married at Dallas City, March 13, 1910; three children, Mrs. Lillian Owen, Charles and James E. Gasaway, all of Galesburg, Illinois. There are four grandchildren; two sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Anna Brown and Mrs. Alice Barry, both of La Plata, Missouri and John Gasaway of Chillicothe, Illinois and Bill Gasaway of Streator, Illinois.
---Services were held Tuesday morning. Burial was in Memorial Park.
LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
AUGUST 22, 1946
EZEKIEL GASAWAY
---Ezekiel Gasaway, 173 West Maind Street, an engineer in the Galesburg, Illinois City Water Department where he had been employed thirty-one years, died of a heart attack and kidney ailment Saturday afternoon about 5:00 at St. Marys Hospital. Mr. Gasaway's condition was believed to have shown improvement but a relapse in early afternoon resulted in his death a few hours later.
---Before becoming a city employee, Mr. Gasaway was a locomotive fireman for the Santa Fe Railroad.
---He was born September 12, 1888 in Hickory County, Missouri and resided at La Plata until about twenty years ago. Since then Galesburg has been his home.
---Survivors are the wife, Grace, to whom Mr. Gasaway was married at Dallas City, March 13, 1910; three children, Mrs. Lillian Owen, Charles and James E. Gasaway, all of Galesburg, Illinois. There are four grandchildren; two sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Anna Brown and Mrs. Alice Barry, both of La Plata, Missouri and John Gasaway of Chillicothe, Illinois and Bill Gasaway of Streator, Illinois.
---Services were held Tuesday morning. Burial was in Memorial Park.
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