Obit of W.M.D. Gaar, 1932, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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>From the December 11, 1932 Winnfield News-American


W. M. D. Gaar Dies At His Home In Hudson Saturday

Public Benefactor Is Laid to Rest In New Hope Cemetery Sunday


William Michael Davie Gaar, 69, public spirited citizen of the Hudson
community, died Saturday November 5, at 6:45 a. m.  Funeral services were held
at the New Hope cemetery at 10 o'clock Sunday morning, the Rev. J. A. Pruett
of the Nazerene Church, Jonesboro, conducting the last rites.  Mr. Gaar's
death was not unexpected, he having been in failing health for the past five
years.

Mr. Gaar is best known to the people of Winn Parish and especially of his
community as a public benefactor.  He donated the site for the public school
at Hudson and was one of the founders of the Hudson Campgrounds.  He also
established the Hudson Training School in 1906 which ran through 1911, serving
as its president during that time.  He believed in real estate as an
investment and at one time was one of the largest land owners of the parish. 
He was a saw mill operator and merchant for many years, and as long as he was
occupied in saw mill operations, he provided employment for a large number of
people.  Besides his other activities, he was postmaster at Hudson as long as
there was a post office there, about 25 years.

Mr. Gaar was a member of the Nazarene Church.  He was for many years a circuit
rider of the old M. P. Church, and served as president of the State M. P.
Conference.  He gave up his active ministry about 1907, but served from 1919
to 1921 as District Superintendent of the Nazarene Churches of the state.

He was married in 1886 to Josephine Jones.  His wife survives him.  He is also
survived by three children, G. C. Gaar, Natchitoches, W. H. Gaar, Fort
Necessity, and Mrs. Rose Goolsby, Hudson; two brothers, Rev. J. E. Gaar, Des
Moines, Iowa, and Rev. J. R. Gaar, Sparrows Point, Md.; one sister, Mrs. Arah
Gaar Jamison, Chillicothe, Tex., and nine grandchildren.

(Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA.)