Mrs. Messinger had entered the same hospital on Wednesday and is a patient there.
A son of the late William and Agnes Fulkerson Messinger, he was born June 6, 1893, at Baldwin, Kas. When he was 5 years old, his father passed away and he was reared by an aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. B.F. McFadden at Pomona, Kas.
Mr. Messinger enlisted in the army during World War I and was discharged in 1918 as a second lieutenant.
He was married to Winifred O. James Aug. 29, 1918, at Falls City. Following his military service they established their home near Shubert and farmed there and at various other places in the county the rest of his life. They moved to their present home in 1945.
Mr. Messinger was a member of the Christian church at Shubert and the Salem American Legion post.
He is survived by his wife; five daughters, Mrs. Ila West, Falls City; Mrs. Cleo Burton and Mrs. Orville Peterson, both of Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. Harold Mex, Rulo, and Mrs. Roy Slavin, Kansas City, Kas.; two sons, Robert, Emporia, Kas., and William, Sabetha; two sisters, Mrs. C.O. Whitman and Mrs. Mattie Stanley, both of Cambria, Calif.; one brother Edgar L. Messinger, Braddyville, Ia.; two half-brothers, James Carpenter, Tacoma Wash., and Lewis Carpenter, Wichita; 18 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
The body is at the Dorr-Philpot and Reavis-Macomber funeral home pending funeral arrangements.
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