Name: Woleslagel, Jason LeRoy
Burial Date: 1958, 07/27
Age at Death: 84
Plot Location: 148 I
Notes: Husband of Edna Rosalie (Spencer)/Minnie Blanche (Henry)
JASON LEROY WOLESLAGEL
from Sterling Kansas Bulletin, Thursday, July 31, 1958:
JASON WOLESLAGEL BURIED HERE SUNDAY
Jason Leroy Woleslagel, longtime resident of Sterling, died on his 84th birthday anniversary in the Sterling hospital at 2 am Friday. He had been ill the past three weeks.
Mr Woleslagel with the exception of a few years in Colorado, Topeka, and Lawrence, made his home in Sterling all his life. He moved here in 1875, when he was one year old, with his parents. Funeral services were held Sunday at 4 pm at the United Presbyterian Church, with Rev A L Spotts officiating. Burial was in the Sterling Cemetery.
Casket bearers were: Olen Laughlin, Frank Smisor, Edward Buehler, Merwin Jones, E I Maris, and Paul Nichol. Edward Wellman was the soloist and Anita Sue Hobble was organist.
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Jason Leroy Woleslagel, son of Jacob Frederick and Lydia Ann Royer Woleslagel, was born July 25, 1874 near Bellevue, Ohio. When he was one year old his family moved to a homestead north of Sterling, then known as Peace. He attended Sterling public schools, Sterling College and business college in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
After an apprenticeship in a St Joseph bank, he returned to Sterling and was employed by the First National Bank. He was married to Edna Spencer in October 1904 and in 1911 moved to Montrose County, Colorado where he farmed until her death in April 1917.
He returned to Sterling and was employed with the Citizens State Bank in 1917 and later with the First National Bank, the Collingwood Grain Company, and as City Clerk.
He was married to Minnie Blanche Henry on May 8, 1919.
In more recent years he lived in Lawrence and Topeka, Kansas, retiring and returning to Sterling in October 1955.
He died July 25, 1958 after a three week illness and at the exact age of 84 years. Mr Woleslagel served as an elder in the Olathe, Colorado United Presbyterian Church and was an active in church work. He maintained an interest in Sterling College and in sports and other outdoor activities until his last illness.
Mr Woleslagel was preceeded in death by a son, Collins LeRoy, who died in infancy in 1906 and by a daughter, Helen, who died May 11, 1958.
He is survived by his wife Blanche, of the home, by a son, Francis Frederick of Lyons, and by a daughter, Doris Vorine Charter of Sterling and two granddaughters, Debra Vorine and Deanna Sue.
| Birth: | Jul. 25, 1874 Sandusky County Ohio, USA |
| Death: | Jul. 25, 1958 Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA |
 Born near Bellevue, Ohio. Son of Jacob Frederick and Lydia Ann (Royer) Woleslagel. Family links: Spouse: Children: Sibling: *Calculated relationship |
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| Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA |
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