Digital Augusta

Augusta, Kansas

1986-04-17
Collection: 1986

Title

1986-04-17

1986-04-18

1986-04-21

Subject

Phillips, Austin

Wager, Elmer C.

Rogers, Louie W.

Description

Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette

Creator

Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA

Source

Augusta Historical Museum, Augusta, Kansas, USA

Publisher

Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA

Date

1986-04-17

1986-04-18

1986-04-21

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Format

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Language

English

Type

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Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA, “1986-04-17,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 26, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/376.
Text

The Augusta Daily Gazette
Friday, April 18, 1986
Thursday, April 17, 1986
Austin Phillips dies, funeral on Saturday
Austin Phillips, 79, Augusta, died yesterday at the Augusta Medical Complex.
His funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the First Church of God, 720 State Street. Rev. Burl Allison Jr. will officiate. Burial will be in Sunset Lawn Cemetery in El Dorado.
A memorial has been established with the Augusta Senior Citizens Center.
He was born Feb. 3, 1907 in Winona, Mo., to Grover Cleveland and Delores Hubbard Green Phillips.
He married Henrietta White Feb. 15,1932 in Perry, Okla. She survives.
He owned Phillips Real Estate and Insurance Co. before his retirement.
Before entering the real estate and insurance business, Phillips owned and operated a grocery store in the 600 block of State Street and farmed near Latham.
Clovis Cash, a longtime friend, recalls that Phillips and his father started the grocery store. “It was called the Pan Tree,” Cash explains. “They opened the store probably in the mid-1920's and operated it for about 15 years until a fire destroyed the business one January.
“It was a very popular store. They had all kinds of merchandise. A lot of the goods were stacked in the middle of the floor. He didn't have stuff displayed like they do now. Because of that he was able to sell at a lower price. He had a good meat department, too. Spencer Ryan was a

Austin Phillips
...dies at hospital

butcher there.”
After the fire, Phillips took his family to Latham where he farmed. Later he returned to Augusta and started the real estate and insurance business.
He was past president of the Kansas Grocerymen's Association and the Watershed Conservation Board. He was also a director of the former Augusta State Bank.
Phillips was a member of the Mystic Tie Lodge 74, the Wichita Consistory, the International Order of Odd Fellows, the Kiwanis and Elks clubs.
Other survivors include sons, David and John, both of Augusta; a daughter, Betty Garrett of Bartlesville, Okla., and six grandchildren.
The Dunsford Funeral Home of Augusta is in charge of arrangements.

Services pending for retired farmer
Funeral services are pending for retired Augusta-area farmer Elmer C. Wager, 84, who died Thursday at his home in Wichita.
The arrangements are pending at DeVorss and Son Funeral Home in Wichita.
Wager is survived by his wife Muriel, three children, sons Bob of Sparks, Nev., and Gary of Silsbee, Texas, and daughter Merilyn Timmons, Omaha, Neb. Seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren survive.
Also surviving is a sister, Winifred McCrea, Derby.

Monday, April 21, 1986
Louie Rogers dies in California
Louie W. Rogers, 44, Riverside, Calif., formerly of Augusta, died in Riverside yesterday from a apparent heart attack.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
He was affiliated with Rogers Construction Co. in Riverside.
Survivors include his wife, Carol McDaniel Rogers; sons, John Tabor, Paula Tabor, Andy Tabor, Louie Wayne Rogers Jr., Timothy Ray Rogers, all of Riverside, Calif.; four grandchildren; parents, Charles and Reva Rogers, foremly of Augusta and now of Sanger, Texas, and parents-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John W. McDaniel of Augusta.

Wager funeral held on Sunday
A funeral service for Elmer C. Wager, 84, Wichita, a retired Augusta-area farmer, was conducted Sunday afternoon at the DeVorss Mortuary in Wichita.
Wager died last Thursday at his home.
He leaves a wife, Muriel of the home; two sons, Bob L. Wager of Sparks, Nev., and Gary K. Wager of Silsbee, Texas; a daughter, Merilyn Timmon of Omaha, Neb.; a sister, Winifred McCrea of Derby, seven grandchildren.
A memorial has been established with the Hyde Park United Methodist Church in Wichita.

Original Format

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