LURA MINNIE PARKER (STAGGE) 1895-1966

Picture of Lura Minnie found in a leather bi-fold picture holder with inscription "The Girl I Left Behind Me" carried in World War I by Louis Abraham Stagge.

Altha dressed in her brother Dean's suit, with cousin Maggie Stimpson and sister Lura Parker

Back Row left to right: Roland Fay Parker, Alverda Williams Parker, Mable Burnett, Rose Ella Parker, Altha Sarah Parker, Noma Flinders, Elwyn Jost Parker, Mark Leonard Parker; Front Row left to right: Louis Abraham Stagge, Elmer Parker, Eva Hansen Parker, Cecil Karl Parker, Lura Minnie Parker, Lulu Cumorah Jones

Ogden City Cemetery

Ogden, Utah United States



Memories of Lura Parker Stagge by her Granddaughter Margo Stagge Loftus

Contributed By MargoLoftus1 · 11 May 2016

Lura was born in Clinton, Utah and attended Clinton schools. Her favorite teachers were Mr. Patterson 

and Miss McCloy. She went on a trip to Idaho when she was 23, which she really enjoyed. She was ward organist and later secretary in both Primary and Sunday School in the Clinton Ward. She always went to church. She lived in Clinton and Ogden all her life. Her favorite form of recreation was dancing. (This was written by her son Ralph Stagge in a genealogy class in 1938) 

Lura met Louis before he went into the service, and they were married when he came home. She worked at the Royal Canning Factory during the summertime. They would can whatever fruit was in season. 

Then she started working full time at Utah Taylor Mills

on 31st and Washington Boulevard after Ralph joined the Navy. The clothes they made there were sold in stores. She also altered clothing for many people on the side. When Bueller Bingham bought out the Taylor Mills, she continued to work there until she retired.

Grandma always wore a dress, necklace and pearl earrings. She had very thin white hair and wore glasses. She would cry easily and would always keep a tissue in her dress. She was very quiet. She loved to read romance magazines and play solitaire. She and Grandpa also played Canasta a lot. She had a few health issues. She had asthma real bad when her kids were small. A doctor would come to the house to treat her. Many times she would faint. She used an inhaler. She also got a colostomy bag when she was in her 50s. She was one of the first people to have one, and Ralph remembers people always wanted to talk to her about it. 

I had just turned 17 when Grandma died suddenly of a heart attack on September 12, 1966. She and Grandpa were renting out their basement apartment to three college nursing students at the time. They had come upstairs, and she told them she was having really bad chest pains. They called for an ambulance, but it was too late. 

LIFE STORY OF LURA MINNIE PARKER STAGGE
My mother’s name is Lura Minnie Parker. Her father’s name is Joseph Parker, and her mother’s name is Minnie May Elmer. She had eight brothers and six sisters. She was born in Clinton, Utah, on November 27, 1985. She attended the Clinton schools. Her best teachers were Mr. Patterson and Miss McCloy.

She went on a trip to Idaho when she was 23. She was baptized in 1904. She was organist and later secretary in both Primary and Sunday School in the Clinton Ward. She lived in Clinton and Ogden, Utah, all her life. Her favorite form of recreation was dancing. She was married in 1919 to Louis Stagge. She had five children, four sons and one daughter.
(The above was written by Ralph Stagge in 1938 as part of a genealogy class.)

Lura Minnie Parker

My mother's name is Lura Minnie Parker. Her mother's name is Minnie May Elmer and her father's name is Joseph Parker. She has 8 brothers and 6 sisters. She was born in Clinton, Utah, November 27, 1895. Some of her playmates were Vira

and LaVern Stewart.

She went to the Clinton school. Her best teachers were Mr. Patterson and Miss McCloy. She went on a trip to Idaho at the age of 23.

She was baptized in the Mormon Church in 1904. She was organist and later secretary in both Primary and Sunday School in the Clinton Ward. She has lived in Clinton and Ogden, Utah, all her life. Her favorite form of recreation was dancing. Her husband's name is Louis Abraham Stagge. She had four sons and one daughter.
Written by her daughter, Velda May Stagge

My Mother's Life Story
My mother's name is Lura Minnie Parker Stagge.  She was the daughter of Minnie May Elmer and Joseph Parker.  She was born November 27, 1895.  She has eight brothers and six sisters.

She was a student at the Clinton School.  Some of her teachers were Mr. Patterson, Mr. Fisher, and Mr. McCloy.  Her playmates were Vira Stewart and LaVern Stewart.

She was baptized in the Mormon Church in 1904.  She was baptized in an irrigation ditch.  She held the position of secretary in both Primary and Sunday School.,

She married Louis A. Stagge in 1919.  She had four sons and one daughter.  She has been a resident of Clinton and Ogden, Utah, all of her life.  She went on a trip to Idaho when she was twenty-three years old.

Her favorite sports are dancing, basketball, and baseball.

This was written in 1937 for the certificate for the First Year Genealogical Class.
Written by Velda May Stagge in her Book of Remembrance.

Margo’s Memories
(Ralph Stagge’s daughter)
I never saw my Grandma wear anything but a dress. She always wore a necklace and pearl earrings. She had very thin white hair and wore glasses. She would cry easily and would always keep a tissue in her dress. She loved to read romance magazines, and I would always want to read them also when we went there to visit. I don’t remember spending the night there, but they did come to our home to babysit Dan and I once when my parents went on a trip.

She was very quiet also. She would talk – but she was not loud. Each time we would go there to visit, she would always be sitting at the kitchen table playing solitaire. That was her favorite thing to do I thought.

I only remember going there once or twice for Thanksgiving. Some of her family would be there, and I loved to visit with them. I loved to go the cemetery on Memorial Day and see all of her relatives. They were just all so interesting and friendly. They always made me feel so welcome and special.

Grandpa and Grandma had a full basement – it was actually an apartment down there. I don’t remember getting to go down there very often – only when my Uncle Deb and Aunt Maxine lived there and I could go down to visit them. Also, when my Uncle Marvin and his family would come from California, they would stay down there – and I would sit on the bed down there and talk with my cousin JoAnn. It was always fun when we went there and had family parties there.

Grandma died suddenly of a heart attack on September 12, 1966.

JoAnn’s Memories
(Marvin Stagge’s daughter)
We would visit Grandma and Grandpa every summer. When I got bored with the adult conversation, I would go downstairs and read Grandma’s romance magazines. I thought they were really risqué for the time and felt guilty that I enjoyed them.

Grandma worked for a tailor shop in her later life. She really enjoyed gardening and had a row of beautiful roses all along the side of her house. She taught me to play Canasta and would let me play Canasta with her and my mother when we visited. It made me feel so grown up to be able to play cards with the adults.

Seems I heard that my Grandma was working in her rose garden when she had her heart attack and that after she died Grandpa went out and pulled up the roses.

Obituary
Lura P. Stagge

Mrs. Lura Minnie Parker Stagge, 70, of 3052 Jefferson, died Monday afternoon at the Dee Hospital following a heart attack.

Mrs. Stagge was born November 27, 1895, in Clinton, Utah, a daughter of Joseph and Minnie May Elmer Parker.

On December 3, 1919, she was married to Louis A. Stagge in Ogden.

She had resided in Clinton and came to Ogden after her marriage.

She was formerly employed at the Royal Canning Company and was a seamstress for the Utah Tailoring Mills, retiring in 1953.She was a member of the LDS Ninth Ward and was former organist in the Clinton Ward.

Surviving are her husband, four sons, Marvin L. Stagge, Concord, California; Delbert E. Stagge and Ralph J. Stagge, both of Ogden; Floyd Stagge, Plain City, 10 grandchildren, five brothers, Elmer Parker, Elwyn J. Parker, both of Clinton, O. Dean Parker, Roland (Ted) Parker, both of Roy, Cecil K. Parker, Ogden; two sisters, Mrs. Rose Toone, Mrs. Altha Sessions, both of Ogden.

Funeral services will be held Thursday at 1 p.m. in Lindquist and Sons Colonial Chapel with Bishop's Counselor Charles Dalwyler of the Ninth Ward officiating.

Friends may call at the mortuary Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. and Thursday prior to services. Burial will be in the Ogden City Cemetery.

Died Monday, September 12, 1966
Probably Ogden Standard-Examiner (laminated on card by funeral home)

U.S. Social Security Death Index for Lura Stagge
First Name: Lura

Middle Name:
Last Name: Stagge
Name Suffix:
Birth Date: 27 November 1895
Social Security Number: 529-03-9536
Place of Issuance: Utah
Last Residence: Weber, Utah
Zip Code of Last Residence: 84403
Death Date: September 1966
Estimated Age at Death: 71

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United States Census, 1930 for Lura Stagge
Name: Lura Stagge

Event: Census
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: Ogden, Weber, Utah
Gender: Female
Age: 34
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Birthplace: Utah
Estimated Birth Year: 1896
Immigration Year:
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Father's Birthplace: Utah
Mother's Birthplace: Utah
Enumeration District Number: 0015
Family Number: 304
Sheet Number and Letter: 14A
Line Number: 33
NARA Publication: T626, roll 2424
Film Number: 2342158
Digital Folder Number: 4547822
Image Number: 00603
Household, Gender, Age
Spouse - Louis Stagge, M, 35
Lura Stagge, F, 34
Child - Marvin Stagge, M, 9
Child - Velda Stagge, F, 7
Child - Delbert Stagge, M, 6
Child - Ralph Stagge, M, 4

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