The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-16

rage to Mrs. Albertina Conner, who
with several step-children, survive,
Following the marriage they con-
tinued to make Sank Centre their
home. Mr.. Friske was a brother
Of Mrs. Bertha Janecke, former
resident Of Sank Centre. He was
the stepfather of Mrs. Frank
O'Gara, of this city.
The body was taken to Albert
Lea, the former home, Sunday,
where on Monday afternoon fun
eral services were conducted at
1880 in Salem English Evangelical
Lutheran Church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank O'Gara and
J Mrs. Friske, the bereaved wife,
went to Albert Lea Sunday to be
in attendance at the last rites on
Monday.
Mrs. Harriet Wesley
Funeral services for Mrs. Lew
Wesley, former resident of Sank
! Centre, who passed away Thurs
day, January 9th, at her home, 1894
Albert Street, st. Paul, were held
Saturday afternoon at two o'clock
in the Fred Johnston Funeral
Home, st. Paul. Death came to
| her following a long illness.
Mrs. Harriet Jane Wesley was a
resident of st. Paul since 1905
She was born in Sank Centre GO
years ago, and she moved from
this city with her family to Buff
falo, N. Y. Later the family re-
turned to Minnesota. She was unit
ed in marriage to Lew Vessey in
1904. Mrs. Vessey was well known
in Sank Centre and often visited
in this city at the home Of Mrs.
L. w. Gilman.
Surviving are her husband, Lew
| Wesley; a son, Alan, and two grand
sons, all Of st. Paul; and three
sisters, Mrs. George Cook, of SYRIA
cuse, N. Y; Mrs. George B. New
comb, of Penney Farms, Florida;
and Mrs. Ernest Riley, Of st. Paul
Burial was made in Roselawn
cemetery.
Mrs. ID. G. Shears
Mrs. D. G. Shears, sister of Mrs
Jess A. Rose, and former resident
of Sank Centre, died suddenly the
morning Of New Years Day in her
home in Los Angeles, California.
Mrs. Rose reported this week. Mrs
Shears died at the age of 81 years.
She lived only an hour and a half
after she suffered stroke New
Years Day. The former Carolyn
McWold, she was a graduate of
| the Sank Centre high school in
the same class with Sinclair Lewis.
She left this city shortly after
her graduation and has made her
home in the west most of her life.
She is survived by her husband,
her sister, Mrs. Rose, of Sank Cen
| tire; and a brother, Charles Nc
Void, of Mayville, North Dakota.
Funeral services were held Friday,
January Bird.
Frank III. BOobar
Frank II. Boobar, son of Calvin
J. Boobar and Eliza Boobar, was
born at Sank Centre July 1, 1862.
The Boobar family came to Fair
Haven from Maine in 1858 but lived
| at Sank Centre for a short period
during which Frank, the youngest
! of II children, was born. When he
was six weeks old the family NOV
ed back to Fair Haven but went
! directly to the stockade at Maine
Prairie to remain for several weeks
during the Indian outbreak in 1862
They spent several years at Rich
| field, Minnesota, after which they
returned to Fair Haven where Mr.
Boobar lived until 1886 when he
moved to South Haven.
Mr.. Boobar was connected with a
creamery and a meat market dur
ing his youth but was best known
as the village blacksmith at Fair
Haven for about 20 years. From
1886 he had a small dairy farm. He
was much interested in dairying
and was an enthusiastic member
of the Guernsey Breeders associa-
ton. Five years ago failing health
, forced him to retire.
Frank Boobar was married JAN
uary Is, 1885, to Jennie Stevens
Mr.. Boobar died last Tuesday eve
ming at his home after a prolonged
illness. The widow and three
daughters remain-Mrs. Ivy Gray
Hamline university, st. Paul; Mrs
G.. r. Van Sickle, Minot, N. D.;
and Amy Boobar, South Haven, as
we'll as five grandchildren and four
great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held in the
Evangelical church at South Haven
Friday with Rev. Florence Jardine
of Annandale, officiating, assisted