Boston Herald
March 25, 1975Mrs. Fredda C. (Holmes) Dager of Swampscott died yesterday in University Hospital, Boston, following a brief illness. She was 79.
She was born in Yarmouth, N.S. and as a child lived in Lynn where more than 50 years ago she was employed in Burrow's and Sanborn's department store before moving to Swampscott, her home most of his life.
She was a member of Victory Chapter 157, Order of Eastern Star: Church of the Redeemer (Methodist), and of its Dorcas Society and of Friendship Circle, First United Church.
She leaves her husband, Lester S. Dager, a son, John H. of Schenectady, N.Y.; a daughter, Mrs. Barbara D. Mitchell of Malden and six grandchildren.
Boston Herald
December 26, 1975SWAMPSCOTT -- Funeral services for Lester S. Dager, 78, of Swampscott, tenor soloist and choir member in Greater Lynn area churches, will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow in Richardson's Funeral Home, Lynn.
A resident of Swampscott for 67 years, he worked as a machinist at Boston Machine Works Co., Lynn, for 52 years until his death.
He attended the First United Church of Baptists and Disciples and the Church of the Redeemer, both of Swampscott.
Dager was a descendant of John Adams Dagyer, a Welch immigrant who was the first shoe manufacturer in Lynn.
He leaves his wife, Fredda (Holmes) Dager; a son, John H. of Schenectady, N.Y.; a daughter, Mrs. Barbara D. Mitchell of Malden; two brothers, Ernest C. of Lynn and Bertrand A. of Texarkana, Texas and two sisters, Mrs. Mildred A. Baker of Lynn and Mrs. Doris P. Dresser of Saugus.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA)
September 10, 1994CORNING, Edgar T., 85, of Bothell, Sept. 6
77353. Herbert Dexter Corning Jr.
Venice Gondolier Sun (FL)
May 15, 2002Herbert D. Corning of Somerville, Mass., formerly of Venice and employed for most of his working life as a milkman, died Friday, May 3, 2002, in Somerville. He was 81.Mr. Corning was born March 30, 1921, in Somerville to the late Herbert and Marjorie (MacKenzie) Corning and was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II.
Survivors include a son, Gary of Wilmington, Mass.; two daughters, Carol Masotta of Groton, Mass., and Janet Moran of Greenville, S.C.; eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune (FL)
March 6, 1998Doris L. Corning, 79, Venice, died March 3, 1998. She was born May 23, 1918, in Medford, Mass., and came to Venice 14 years ago from Somerville, Mass. A graduate of Fischer Junior College in Boston, she was a bookkeeper for a wholesale grocery company for more than 25 years. She was a member of Evangelical Covenant Church in Venice and College Avenue Methodist Church in Somerville.
Survivors include her husband, Herbert; two daughters, Carol J. Masotta of Groton, Mass., and Janet C. Moran of Greenville, S.C.; a son, Gary J. of Wilmington, Mass.; three sisters, her twin Dorothy Griffith of Marshfield, Mass., Shirley Costain of Texas and Sylvia Austin of California; two brothers, Norman Beckett of Annandale, Va., and John Beckett of Boynton Beach; and eight grandchildren.