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Ila Mamie (Casebier) LaMar

Posted 2023-11-08 by Pat R
Winslow Mail (Winslow, Arizona)
Wednesday, July 11, 2001

Funeral Services for Ila Casebier LaMar of Morristown were held June 26
in Wickenburg, Ariz. Mrs. LaMar died June 22 at the Wickenburg Regional
Medical Center.

She was 109 years, 9 months, and 14 days old, and was in good health
throughout her life except the last 10 days.

Mrs. LaMar was born September 8, 1891, in Saffordville, Kansas. She
married C. H. LaMar in 1913 at her family home near Osage City, Kansas.
The young couple and their two children moved to Arizona in 1916 where
her husband worked for the Santa Fe Railroad as Section Foreman, first
at Hibbard, located between Winslow and Joseph City, then Sunshine,
Adamana and in 1923 moved to Morristown where the family resided the
past 78 years.

She lived in three centuries: As a youngster in the 19th Century, as 100
years of the 20th Century, and completed her journey in life in the 21st
Century. She lived during the term of 21 Presidents. Her life began in
the horse and buggy days and extended into the space age though she
never flew in a plane.

She was preceded in death by her husband C. Horald LaMar in 1968 and a
daughter Dorothy Tipton in 1994.

Survivors include six children: Ena McGuire (Erwin) of Morristown; Clyde
LaMar (Ruby) of Heber; Howard DeLoss LaMar of Congress; Ila Mae
Sutherlin (John) of Glendale; Dwight LaMar (Marie) of Winslow; and
Beverlee Ruth LaMar of Phoenix; 14 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren
and nine great-great-grandchildren.

She was a member of the Hassayampa Order of Eastern Star, Chapter No.
35.

Funeral arrangements were handled by Wickenburg Funeral Home. Burial was
at the Morristown Cemetery.





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