Extracted from The Monroe Morning World (Monroe, LA)
Sunday, November 17, 1957

MRS. J. A. GAAR

JONESBORO (Special) -- Funeral services have been scheduled for Mrs. J. A. Gaar, 76-year-old life-long resident, who died Friday at the home of a son, Ochner Gaar, in Atlanta, Ga.

Death came following a brief illness.

Funeral services are to be conducted Monday at the Jonesboro Methodist Church with the Rev. G. W. Dameron officiating. Time for the rites was not yet set last night. Interment will be under the direction of Edmonds Funeral Home of Jonesboro.

The body is to arrive in Jonesboro this morning and will lie in state at Edmonds until time for services.

Survivors include another son, Fred M. Gaar, San Francisco, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. John Held, St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Homer Watkins, Jonesboro, and a brother, Bryant Pullen, Jonesboro.