Obituary: Rev. Lorin W. Laeger, Franklin Parish, LA
Submitted by Shirley Ashley <shirla@vsta.com>
 
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The Franklin Sun, Winnsboro, Louisiana
May 31, 2000    Page 5A
Volume 143    No. 42
 
Rev. Lorin W. Laeger
 
Funeral services for Rev. Lorin W. Laeger, 79, of Aurora were held Thursday in the 
First Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Barry Williams officiating.
 
Interment followed in Maple Park Cemetery in Aurora under the direction of
Crafton-Cantrell 
Funeral Home.
 
Rev. Laeger was born January 22, 1921 in Cortland, Nebraska.  He was an Army Air
Force 
veteran of World War II, a part-time minister at the Liberty Church, a member of Aurora
Lions 
Club, Masonic Lodge # 129 of Monett, a life member of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity and 
was past district governor.
 
Mr. Laeger served the Presbyterian Churches in Baskin, Union, and Winnsboro as pastor
from 1977 until his retirement in 1982.  During that time he was an active member of the 
Winnsboro Lion's Club.
 
He passed away Tuesday, May 23, 2000 at St. John's Regional Health Center following 
a short illness.  He was preceded in death by a son, William E. "Eddie" Laeger.
 
Survivores include his wife, Gail Weaver Laeger; two daughters, Lorinda Walter of Ft. 
Smith, Arkansas; Ginger Garner of Aurora; two sons, Gary Galloway of Cape Fair,
Missouri;
Tory Galloway of Bentonville, Arkansas; 12 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; three 
sisters, Lorene Klein of Shawnee Mission, Kansas; Evelyn Lund, Great Bend, Kansas; 
and Laverna Cavender of Springfield, Missouri.
 
Memorails may be made to the Lions Eye Tissue Bank.