Obituary for Agnes Lorene Thornhill Pollard  (1900-1975)              
Troy Free Press, Troy, Lincoln County, MO.                 
From the clippings of Lorraine Meyer Gerdiman


            Mrs. Agnes Lorene POLLARD passed away in the Poague Home, Wentzville, Mo., early Friday morning, July 11, 1975.  She was 74 years of age.

            Funeral services for Mrs. POLLARD were conducted from the Kemper Marsh Funeral Home in Troy, Sunday, July 13, 1975 by the Rev. Marvin Braungardt.  Lester Schloemann was the soloist and Mrs. D.L. Goins was the organist.

            Interment was in Thornhill Cemetery.  Casketbearers were William ARRENDELL, Earl Theodore BLUM, Paul HARRELL and George LUETKENHAUS.

            Mrs. POLLARD was born in Troy, November 9, 1900, the daughter of George and Nannie THOMPSON THORNHILL.  In 1925 she was married to James Stanley POLLARD.

            Mr. POLLARD died in March of 1974.  She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Roger (Ruby) CHANDLER, of Mesa, Arizona, and Mrs. Earl (Marcella) BLUM, of St. Charles, 9 grandchildren, 1 great-granddaughter and other relatives and friends.

            Before her retirement, Mrs. POLLARD had worked for the Brown Shoe Co. and Leggett and Myers Tobacco Co. in St. Louis and for the H.W. Gossard Garment Factory in Troy. 

            She was a member of the New Galilee Church.


File submitted to HERITAGE PAGES of LINCOLN COUNTY, MISSOURI by Nancy Weller, 4 February, 2005.

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