Evelyn (Farrar) Hagerdon (1908-1939)

FARRAR, HAGERDON, KEEGAN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 1/21/2022 at 20:43:29

From Nevada Evening Journal July 15, 1939 (page 3)

Memorial Services at Adel and Ames for Mrs. Hagerdon

Memorial services held for Evelyn Farrar Hagerdon at the Christian church at Adel, Friday morning and at the Collegiate Methodist church at Ames in the afternoon gave evidence of the great respect in which she was held.

The Dallas County Farm Bureau was in charge at Adel where there was hardly standing room with about 25 floral tributes. At the Collegiate Methodist church in the afternoon the extension service of Iowa State college and the home demonstration agents' association were in charge.

Here the floral tributes were increased to 50 representing her associates in the extension field both at Ames and in Dallas county, college friends, earlier Napier friends as well as the friends of her husband who graduated from Iowa State college in Dec., 1938, in dairy husbandry.

Among the immediate family attending the funeral were Dr. J. J. Keegan and wife and Helen Stewart of Omaha who were at Adel. Dr. Keegan, uncle of Evelyn, was her constant counselor from the first evidence of the presence of Hodgkin's disease in June of 1936. This disease is very rare, especially in women, its course is unknown, there is little possible treatment and no cure.

Mr. Hagerdon's parents and brother Jesse and family of Smithland attended both Adel an Ames services.

Interment was made in the new addition of the Ames cemetery.

Evelyn Farrar Hagerdon was born Dec. 21, 1908, at Axtell, Kan., and died July 12, 1939, at the Iowa Methodist hospital in Des Moines.

From 1918 to 1931 she lived at Ames graduating from Napier Consolidated school in 1926 and from Iowa State college in home economics in 1931. She was home economics teacher at Colo, Ia., from 1931 to 1933 and at Smithland, Ia., from 1933 to 1936. In Feb., 1936, she became home demonstration agent of Dallas county and was in that official capacity at the time of her death, being on sick leave.

She was married to L. Hagerdon, now of Waterloo, Aug. 22, 1934 at Crown Point, Ind. This marriage was not revealed until the day before her death. She was planning to have it announced in the fall and expected to resign her position at Adel, Jan. 1, 1940.