Albert James Waggoner

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Biography

Date of Birth February 11, 1898
Place of Birth Centralia, Illinois
Date of Death November 30, 1968
Place of Death Lake View Hospital, Danville, Illinois
Place of Burial Cerro Gordo Cemetery, Cerro Gordo, IL
Burial Notice Albert James Waggoner, 1898-1968

Parents

Father’s Name William McClelland Waggoner
Mother’s Name Katherine Eunice (Marsh) Waggoner
Parent’s Family Name William and Katherine (Marsh) Waggoner Family

Spouse

First Wife’s Name Ruth Helen (Moulton) Waggoner
Second Wife’s Name Ara Catherine (Rawlings) Waggoner
Married Family Name Albert and Ara (Rawlings) Waggoner FamilyAlbert and Ara (Rawlings) Waggoner Family

Children by First Wife

Son’s Name Jerry Moulton Waggoner
Son’s Family Name Jerry and Betty (Roberson) Waggoner Family

Brothers and Sisters

Brother’s Name Earl Joseph Waggoner
Brother’s Family Name Earl and Alice (Foley) Waggoner Family
Sister’s Name Marie Kathryn (Waggoner) Ryan
Sister’s Family Name Charles and Marie (Waggoner) Ryan Family
Personal History
Reference: Betty’s Red Book, p. 21, Para. 2

Albert was a personable man. He worked real hard and made good money in the food business all his life, usually self-employed, as a wholesale fruit and vegetable distributor and a meat cutter. Jerry loved his father a lot.

After Ara’s death, Albert moved to an upstairs apartment on Main Street in Danville August 15, 1966, where Betty and Jerry tried to take care of him.

He had a problem with alcohol in his younger days. Towards the end of his life he was unhappy living alone and began drinking again.

Albert’s Final Days

Jerry took notes about Albert’s condition from Monday November 25 until Albert passed away on Saturday November 30, 1968. During that week, Albert’s condition deteriorated. He was easily confused and unable to perform routine tasks like dressing himself, swallowing and drinking, etc.

Jerry and family, and Albert, spent Thanksgiving, November 28th at Bill and Wilma Hambrecht’s home in Decatur. They returned to Danville that rainy night from 6:00-8:00 pm. Jerry dropped Bill and Albert off at Albert’s apartment and took rest of the family back home.

On Friday 29th, a Doctor Harding evaluated Albert and noticed significant swelling in his legs. The doctor diagnosed Albert with cerebral malacia and generalized arteriosclerosis, and admitted him to the Danville Lake View hospital for some tests.

Jerry had to work late on the 29th until 7 pm, and then got some things for Albert and took him to the hospital between 8:30-9:00 pm Friday night.

Jerry and Betty thought Albert would be all right, now that he was being cared for at the hospital, until they could get back to see him on Saturday.

The hospital nurses watched Albert closely all night, and on Saturday at 6:00 am the nurses checked Albert and he was ok. But by 6:55 am that morning Albert had died in his sleep. Albert died alone, with no family beside him.

Jerry took his dad’s death very hard, and blamed himself for not staying with him that night. It took him a long time to get over the grief he had for not being there.

Albert’s death certificate says manner of death was “myocardial infarction, coronary arteriosclerosis”