MABLE LOUISE8 CREAGER, dau/o Walter7 Perle CREAGER (Abner6, John Christian5, Christian4, Adam3 Creager, Johann Casper2 Krieger/Creager, Hans Ernst1 Krieger) and Marietta "Etta" YOUNG, was born 9 July 1902. "When Mabel was growing up in Oakwood, she lived next door to the Wright Brothers." (L. Hellmund) She married 10 August 1921 to Dwight L. BARNES, s/o Oliver BARNES & Ella ROUTSONG. Dwight was born in 1897. Mable and Dwight were both teachers. "Dwight became the first school superintendent of the Kettering School System, Kettering, Montgomery County, Ohio. The Kettering Board of Education Building is named after Dwight. It was previously Fairmont High School and Dwight L. Barnes Middle School." (L. Hellmund) Dwight died in 1977, and Mable passed away in 1998. Both are buried at David's Cemetery, Montgomery County, Ohio.
[Saturday] Nov. 2, 1935 Pg. 2 MATIE MAE CREAGER Constantine, Mich. Funeral services for Miss Matie Mae Creager, 57, who died Friday at the home of her brother, Perry Creager, near Constantine [St. Joseph Co., MI], will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Geisler funeral home. The Rev. A. L. Angersbach of the Lutheran church will officiate. Burial will be in the Constantine cemetery. |