Eddie Wagar was the third of five children born to Edwin Osmyn and Nellie Maud Blunt Wagar. He was born in Washington and then moved with his family to Alberta, Canada in 1910, later coming back to the United States and settling with his parents at Bonner, Montana where his father was employed at the saw mill there. He graduated from Missoula High School in 1929. Sometime late that fall, he was out shooting with a .22 caliber rifle and used his rifle butt to break a hole in some ice. The rifle fired accidentally, entering his right side and piercing the diaphram, liver, and right kidney before lodging in his spine. The young man subsequently walked five miles to a place where one of his sisters helped him get to a hospital. Surgery took place in Missoula, but there was a great deal of damage done. He lived for two more years, and the family determined that he might receive a surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The surgery was scheduled, but his health did not permit it to be done and he died with his mother by his bedside, in that town. He was brought back to Missoula by train for burial. His death was a hard blow to the family, who had already lost another son, William, to pneumonia as a result of influenza in 1919.
Eddie Wagar was the third of five children born to Edwin Osmyn and Nellie Maud Blunt Wagar. He was born in Washington and then moved with his family to Alberta, Canada in 1910, later coming back to the United States and settling with his parents at Bonner, Montana where his father was employed at the saw mill there. He graduated from Missoula High School in 1929. Sometime late that fall, he was out shooting with a .22 caliber rifle and used his rifle butt to break a hole in some ice. The rifle fired accidentally, entering his right side and piercing the diaphram, liver, and right kidney before lodging in his spine. The young man subsequently walked five miles to a place where one of his sisters helped him get to a hospital. Surgery took place in Missoula, but there was a great deal of damage done. He lived for two more years, and the family determined that he might receive a surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The surgery was scheduled, but his health did not permit it to be done and he died with his mother by his bedside, in that town. He was brought back to Missoula by train for burial. His death was a hard blow to the family, who had already lost another son, William, to pneumonia as a result of influenza in 1919.
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