Dragoo, Dora

Passed: 1935-03-17

Age: 79

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1935-03-22

Information: "Aunt Dora"" Dragoo died last Sunday at Sandyville.  There was a shadow of gloom over the entire community Sunday afternoon when the word went out that Mrs. Dragoo , ""Aunt Dora"" as she was familiarly known, had passed to the great beyond.  Aunt Dora had spent almost her entire life in this immediate neighborhood and all had learned to love her.  She was kind, patient and obliging and will be greatly missed.  She was the widow of the late Elemas Dragoo, who served his country for four long years in that terrible conflict known as the Civil War, for which services he received an honorable discharge, which is now in the possession of his children.  Mr. and Mrs. Dragoo reared a large family of children, eleven in all, of which eight (8) survive, five sons and three daughters, all of whom have become honorable, upright citizens.  Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time. [22 March 1935]      Mrs. ""Aunt Dora"" Dragoo, of whose death we spoke last week, was interred in the Independence cemetery at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.  Rev. Staats preached a very able and appropriate sermon from the fourth chapter and eighth verse of Second Kings, after which her four sons, Otis, James, Harry, and Clarence and two sons-in-law, Henry Patterson and T. B. Lee, gently bore her to her final resting place followed by a large concourse of weeping friends.  Mrs. Dragoo is survived by the following children:  Otis Oscar Dragoo of Griffithsville; Jesse Clarence Dragoo of Layton, Pa.; Edgar Dragoo of Miami, Florida; Mrs. H. P. Patterson of Wellsville, Ohio; Mrs. B. F. Lee of St. Louis, Missouri; and James Dragoo, at home; 24 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren also survive.   [29 March 1935]    [from the collection of Betty Kessel McIntyre]