Lake Co. IN Obit


Mrs. E. E. RAGON
Death came quietly late Wednesday morning to HENRIETTA PALMER RAGON, widow of ELMER RAGON 
and member of a pioneer family in southern Lake county.  Aged 88, she died after years of 
frail health in the home shared with her son and daughter-in-law, MR. and MRS. CHANDOS 
RAGON at 803 North Grant.
    Daughter of ADELBERT and MARIETTA  PALMER and great great granddaughter of OBADIAH 
TAYLOR, Lake county's only Revolutionary War soldier, she was born on a farm near Creston 
July 3, 1867.  She was a resident of Lake county, living in Creston, Lowell, Gary and 
Crown Point, for her entire lifetime excepting two years spent in Atkinson, Nebraska 
after her marriage in 1890.
    Surviving with her son CHANDOS are three granddaughters, MRS. HENRIETTA LESTIKOW of 
Hobart, MRS. FLORA BELLE BRADLEY of Oakland, California, and MRS. NORINE MCGUAN of East 
Chicago; three brothers, CHARLES F. PALMER, of Lowell, GRANT of El Segundo, California 
and JASPER of Hammond; and three great grandchildren.
    MRS. RAGON'S husband, member of a newspaper family still active in Lowell, was an 
editor of the Lowell Tribune.  His death occurred August 5, 1939, and their son FOREST 
died September 20, 1949.
    Gentle and sympathetic in nature, MRS. RAGON was widely loved and admired.  Her 
circle of friendship was widened through affiliation with the auxiliaries of the American 
Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars here.  She was a member of First Christian church.  
DEAN JACOBY, pastor here, will share 2 o'clock services with REV E. L. WORLEY in Sheets 
funeral home at Lowell Saturday afternoon.  The family lot in Lowell cemetery will be 
the place of burial.



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