Folger, Raymond, 1894-1937

FOLGER, CATHCART

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:38

From the Alton Democrat, February 26, 1937:

Raymond Folger Passes On – Vet. Hospital

From Mrs. John C. Folger comes sad news of the passing of her son, Raymond Folger, at the Veteran hospital in Sawtelle, Calif. on Tuesday, Feb. 9th, after an attack of influenza with complications. Funeral services with military honors were held Friday morning at the hospital chapel conducted by the Chaplain, and interment was in the cemetery at Sawtelle where thousands of other World War veterans are at rest.

Raymond was born in Alton and grew to young manhood here, later moving with his parents to Taopi, Minn. where in 1917 he enlisted for World War service. He was friendly and gentle in disposition, a favorite with old and young, and is remembered kindly by many friends here. He was unmarried, and is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Folder of Tujunga, Calif., his older brother, Lynn, also of Tujunga, and by three sisters: Virginia, Mrs. Paul Rockhoven, living in Missouri; Catherine and Lois, both married and living in California.

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RESEARCH NOTES

The California Death Index has Raymond Folger, died in Los Angeles County, California, 9 Feb 1937, age 42. FindaGrave.com shows him buried in the Los Angeles National Cemetery, with a photo of his headstone: “Raymond Folger – Minnesota – Mech. 135 Inf. 34 Div. February 9, 1937.”

Ancestry.com has an application for military veterans headstone for Raymond Folger, rank “Mech,” Company H, 135th U.S. Infantry; World War, 34th Division, from Minnesota; enlisted April 10, 1917; discharged March 19, 1919; cemetery: Veterans Administration Facility, Los Angeles.

The 1900 U.S. census for Alton, Sioux County, Iowa has John and Sarah Folger and their family, including Raymond, age 6, born March 1894. . The Iowa Births and Christenings Index on Ancestry.com shows an unnamed male Folger child, parents Jno Folger and Sadie Cathcart, born 6 March 1894 in Sioux County.

In the 1925 Iowa state census (age 31) he was living in Alton with his parents, John Folger (67), born in Indiana, and Sarah Cathcart Folger (60), born in Wisconsin.

In the 1930 census he was living alone in Twenty-nine Palms Township, San Bernardino County, California, in a house that he owned, working as a farm laborer.