Obituaries:  Sarah Anne Vandegaer, Sabine Parish La.       V-532
Source:  Shreveport Times, Shreveport, La., Jun 11, 1998
Submitted by: Thelma Shields
              shields@eufaula.lib.ok.us


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  Obituary for Sarah Anne Vandegaer

  Sarah Anne Vandegaer, daughter of William Henry Vandegaer was
born in Many, Louisiana, July 6, 1902. She was preceded in death
by her father, March 5, 1947 and her mother on November 26, 1904.

  In 1921 she graduated from St. John's Academy, Many, Louisiana,
a Catholic private school staffed by Sisters of Divine Providence
from Our Lady of the Lake College, San Antonio, Texas.

  Immediately after graduation she went to the office of her
father, W H Vandegaer, Abstracter. He had previously been Sabine
Parish Tax Assessor for sixteen years and Clerk of District Court
twelve. In 1933 a partnership was formed with him under the title
of Vandegaer and Vandegaer Abstracters.

  In 1947, after the death of her father she became sole owner of
the company and the name was then changed to Vandegaer Abstract
Company. She remained with the company after selling it in 1965
and retired in 1982, after having been a Land Title Abstracter
and Notary Public for sixty years.

  Miss Vandegaer was the grand-daughter of John Baptiste Vandegaer
who arrived from Belgium in 1855 and settled in Sabine Parish in
1859. He married Maria Buvens, who arrived in America in 1837 and
built the home in which Miss Vandegaer resided.

  Miss Vandegaer was a member of St. John's Altar Society, the
American Legion Auxiliary and a charter member of the Many
Chamber of Commerce. She has been a lifelong member of St. John
the Baptist Catholic Church.

  Miss Vandegaer is survived by her sister-in-law, Johnnie Belle
Vandegaer, widow of her brother J B Vandegaer and numerous
relatives and friends.

  Services will be held at 2pm Saturday June 13, 1998 at St.
John's Catholic Church in Many with interment at St. John's
Cemetery.

  Thelma K Shields
  shields@eufaula.lib.ok.us