Jesse M. Gage

Jesse M. Gage, 86, of Meadville, retired Meadville grocer, died Tuesday, December 25, 1962 at Spencer Hospital shortly after being admitted.

He was born in Randolph Township, September 27, 1876, a son of Dwight M. and Ellen Fields Gage.  He was a farmer in the Guys Mills area until moving to Meadville in 1923, where he operated a grocery store on Park Avenue at Randolph Street and later on Mead Ave. until retiring about 10 years ago.  He was a member of Grace Methodist Church.

He first was married to the former Lela Bentley, who died in 1936.  In 1939, he married Abbie McNamara DeRemer.

Surviving, besides his widow, are a daughter, Mrs. Nick (Louise) Novak, Jr. of Meadville; four sons, Willis B., G. Wilbur and Homer D., all of Meadville and Wayne N. of Toronto, OH; three step-children, LeRoy DeRemer of Arlington, WA, Mrs. Marjorie Marvin of Townville and Miss Lorriane DeRemer of Seattle, WA; nine grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.

Services were held at Waid Funeral Home.

Interment was in Union Cemetery, Guys Mills.