Quaintance, Lavona (Trager) 1837-1905

QUAINTANCE, TRAGER, JOHNSON, THOMPSON, LIVINGSTON

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 1/26/2005 at 17:48:53

The death of Mrs. Lavona Quaintance, coming suddenly as it did yesterday morning, brings not only great sorrow to her many friends in this city, and it is a great shock to all. Mrs. Quaintance had been quite well, had cared for her home and gone about her usual duties until last Friday morning, since which time she had been suffering with neuralgia of the heart. Sunday morning she seemed better, and had been sleeping quietly when her sister, Mrs. Anna Livingston, who was caring for her, returned from another room, where she had gone only a few moments previous, only in time to see her sister pass away. Death came quickly and quietly, without warning and without a struggle.

Mrs. Quaintance was a woman who had lived a quiet life, devoting her time largely to her home and family. But it is such as these that leave great impressions, the influence of a lovely mother who lives for her children and home cannot be measured.

Lavona Trager was born August 22, 1837, in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. In 1856 she married Mr. Ira Quaintance, and the same year came with her husband to this city, where she has always resided. One child and her husband preceded her in death. She is survived by four children, Mrs. Kate Johnson of Chicago, Mrs. Sadie Thompson of this city, George Quaintance of Billings, Montana, and Leon, who has always made his home with his mother. There is also one sister and a brother, Mrs. Livingston and P. M. Trager both of this city. ~ The Newton Daily News, Newton, IA, Monday, October 30, 1905, Page 1, Column 4