LESTER MORRIS GAMMON

GAMMON

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 4/23/2002 at 21:30:07

Decatur County Journal
Thursday, February 5, l920

LESTER MORRIS GAMMON, only son of MR. and MRS. ROY GAMMON, was born January l0, l906, and passed away at the home of his parents in Leon, January 30, l920, aged fourteen years and twenty days.
His life was spent on the home farm four miles southeast of Leon until two months before his fatal illness, when he moved with his parents to Leon.

He was in the second year in the Leon High School. He took great interest in his school work and was studious and ambitious always to have good lessons and good grades, and his report cards always demonstrated his success in his efforts.

LESTER was an only child, the pride of his parents and the sunshine of the home. He was the youngest of eleven grandchildren and was loved and petted by his aged grandparents, who lived with him the first few years of his life, and was a source of enjoyment to them to the end of their lives. It is less than a year since his grandmother passed away.

It was LESTER's good fortune to have been endowed with a happy and kindly disposition and a generous nature. Having a taste for books he quite naturally made rapid progress in his shool work. He loved animals and early in life took great interet in the work of the farm. Not many boys of his age would be found as dependable in caring for the farm animals.

As a playmate, he was loved and respected by his associates. One of his ambitions was to become a Boy Scout. He loved to read the stories and adventures which distinguish this organization. LESTER suffered greatly during his illness, but his disease baffled the skill of the physicians, and he passed away in his purity and innocence, leaving many loved ones to mourn his untimely departure, but the memory of his innocent and happy life, his generous disposition and kind acts will be cherished by those who loved him so well.

The funeral was held at the home Sunday afternoon, Rev. Campbell, of the Presbyterian Church, officiating.
A very large concourse of friends gathered to pay tribute to his memory. Interment was in the Eden Prairie Cemetery.

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April 22, 2002