Canada, Soldiers of the First World War
Name: Frank Lester Corning
Residence: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Birth Date: 14 Sep 1886
Birth Location: Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
Relative: Emma Corning
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.