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From: Martha Humenik <>
Subject: [PaCambri] RAGER OBITS
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:28:20 -0500


The following RAGER obituaries have been added to the Cambria Obituary Board. If you are related to these Ragers, please contact me.

Cordelia Rager

RESIDENT OF COKEVILLE DEAD
Native of North Mahoning Township Will Be Buried on Wednesday
- Blairsville Moose Postpone Party.
FLU IS BLAMED

BLAIRSVILLE, Dec. 24 - Mrs. Cordelia, (Repine) Rager, aged 49 years, wife of Hugh Rager, died at 10 o'clock Sunday morning at the Rager home in Cokeville, after an illness of two weeks.

The deceased was a daughter of John Repine and Margaret (McCombs) Repine, and was born in North Mahoning township). She was a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Blairsville.

She leaves her husband; five sons--W. M. Rager, Gillis Rager, Earl Rager, Harry Rager and Robert Rager--all at home; and two daughters, Mrs. Harry McIntire, of Aspinwall, and Mrs. Harvey Berenbrok, of Blairsville.

She is also survived by three brothers, Daniel Repine, of Wilkinsburg, and John Repine and Richard Repine, both of Blairsville; and three sisters, Mrs. Albert Pahel, of Irwin,
Mrs. Rachel Bollinger, of Bradenville, and Mrs. Roy Mikesell, of Blairsville.

Funeral services will be conducted in the Rager home at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, in charge of the Rev. H. E. Lloyd, minister of the First Methodist Episcopal Church.

Interment will be made in the Blairsville Cemetery.

Source: December 24, 1928 unknown newspaper clipping
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John Rager

Rager

John Rager, aged 75 years, died at the home of his son Martin Rager, at Blairsville, Sunday afternoon. Interment was made at Blacklick Mr. Ragers' old home.

Source: August 3, 1898 unknown newspaper clipping
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George W. Rager

Received Charge in Head When.22 Calibre Rifle Was Discharged As He Stepped from Auto-Companion Exonerated
BY PAUL McGILUCK
(Staff Correspondent)

BLAIRSVILLE, Oct. 25.-The accidental discharge of a 22 calbre magazine rifle was responsible for the almost instantaneous death Saturday evening of George W. Rager, aged 37 years and married, a carpenter of Blacklick, and caretaker at Camp Rest-a-While, while enroute on a nocturnal hunting expedition with Samuel Winkleman, aged 25, also of Blacklick. The accident occurred at 9:30 o'clock Saturday evening on a farm located three miles north of Blairsville, while Rager was stepping out of an automobile. In some manner the rifle was discharged, the cartridge striking the man in the lower right jaw, penetrating the roof of the mouth and entering the brain, where it lodged, causing, almost instant death. Winkleman, who was standing alongside the automobile when the rifle was discharged, summoned help from two nearby farm houses, but examination revealed that the wounded man had expired, only living a few minutes after the bullet had entered his head. Residents of the vicinity not!
ified Blairsville police, and the body was removed to the J.F. Ferguson undertaking establishment here.

At the inquest conducted here late yesterday morning by Dr. Fred W. St. Clair, of Indiana, Coroner of Indiana county, a verdict of accidental death was returned by the coroner's jury, comprised of G. C. Overdorff, J. B. Simpson, J. C. Rager, R. J. Gorton, H. W. Longnecker and W. B. Smith. At the inquest it was revealed that Rager and Winkleman had left Blacklick shortly after nine o'clock Saturday evening. Driving to a point north of here, Rager stopped the machine and the two men prepared to enter a nearby wooded section to hunt. Winkleman testified that he stepped out of the car and started to adjust a miner's cap and light he was wearing, while Rager picked up the rifle and followed him
out. In some unknown manner the rifle was discharged, and the man fell back against the machine, fatally wounded. Assisting the wounded man as best he could under the circumstances, Winkleman summoned aid, but in the meantime Rager died, from a severe cerebral hemorrhage, caused by the bullet entering the brain.

A thorough investigation of the accident, conducted a short time later by Sheriff John Malcolm and County Detective George Fields, resulted in a like verdict of accidental death.

The body of the dead man was removed to the family home in Blacklick following the inquest. Arrangements for the funeral have not been completed.

Source: October 25, 1926 unknown newspaper clipping
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Martha Humenik

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