Mrs. L. Amy Garrett, 70 years of age, died at her home in Clearmont at 11:15 o’clock Monday night following an illness of six weeks. She was the widow of Amasa H. Garrett of Clearmont.
Mrs. Garrett was a member of the Clearmont Methodist church and the Clearmont O E S. She had spent her entire life in the Clearmont community.

 

Funeral services will be held at the Clearmont Methodist Church at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon. The Rev. Ted Masters, pastor of the Grant City church will have charge of the services.
Burial will be in the Clearmont Cemetery.

 

She was born October 26, 1877 near Clearmont, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Harvey Lemon. She was married to Amasa H. Garrett June 15, 1910 in Clearmont.
Mr. Garrett died March 14, 1942. She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. L. L. Starnes of St. Joseph, and Mrs. Nellie J. Jones, of Parnell, and one brother, H. A. Lemon, Maryville.

Tuesday, May 27, 1947 Maryville Daily Forum, Maryville, Missouri
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A. H. Garrett

 

Funeral services were held at 4 o’clock this afternoon at the family home at Clearmont for Amasa Horace Garrett, 83 years of age, who died at 6:30 o’clock Saturday night at his home, where he had resided twenty-two years. (The date was March 14, 1942.) He had been ill eighteen months. Rev. Ted Masters, pastor of the Methodist church of Clearmont, officiated. Burial was in the Clearmont cemetery.

 

He was born June 24, 1858 near Wyanet, Ill., the son of Andrew R. and Minerva (Nichols) Garrett, and later resided in Buda and Princeton, Ill.
He attended a medical college in Chicago and in 1880 moved to Nodaway county. One year later he moved to Columbus, Kas.
From there he went to Bentonville, Ark., and later returned to Clearmont and engaged in the drug business.

 

He entered the lumber and hardware business at Clearmont in 1892. He had been a resident of Clearmong fifty-five years.
He was married January 19, 1882 to Miss Jessie Olive McCloskey, who preceded him in death September 9, 1906. On June 15, 1910 he was married to L. Amy Lemon.

 

He is survived by his wife; five sons, Ned T. Garrett, Parnell; Andrew R. Garrett, Farmington, N. M., Howard Garrett and Hubert Garrett, Maryville,
and John A. Garrett, Wichita, Kas.; one daughter, Mrs. Agnes Harrison, Clearmont; one sister, Mrs. J. T. Smith, Clearmont; one brother, John Garrett, Eureka Springs, Ark., and nine grandchildren.

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Howard W. Garrett

 

Howard W. Garrett, age 59, distributor for a petroleum company and widely known in Missouri Republican circles, died at 5:20 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the St. Francis Hospital.
His death occurred after a year’s illness.

Mr. Garrett was born May 18, 1889 in Arkansas, the son of the late Jesse Olive McClaskey and Amasa H. Garrett. For the last seventeen years, he has been a resident of Maryville.
His home is located at the north edge of Maryville. He was affiliated with the A. F. and A. M. Lodge of Clearmont.

Funeral services will be conducted at 3:30 o’clock Friday afternoon at the Price funeral home by the Rev. Ted Masters of Grant City. Burial will be in the Clearmont cemetery.

 

Out-of-town relatives who are here include three brothers, Ned Garrett, Parnell; Andrew Garrett, Delta, Colo.; Mr. and Mrs. John Garrett, Denver, Colo.; two nephews,
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Garrett, Fort Sheridan, Ill.; Howard Harrison, Denver, Colo.; and a niece, Mrs. W. A. TerHar, Portland, Oregon. John Wickman, a close friend,
is expected to arrive from his home in Wichita, Kas.

 

Mr. Garrett was owner of the Garrett Oil Co. that was distributor for the Mid-Continent Petroleum Co. In this business Mr. Garrett was the owner of seven oil stations and leased another.
 He started in the oil station business in Clearmont and still owned the D-X station on Highway 71 there. Prior to entering the oil business, Mr. Garrett was in the hardware and lumber business.
 He was associated with his father, the late A. H. Garrett, in the business for many years. After A. H. Garrett died, his son-in-law, the late Woart Harrison operated the Garrett lumberyard in
Clearmont that is now operated by former county judge Everett Gray. Mr. Garrett also was interested for about ten years in the Garrett-Curfman lumber yard in Wilcox.

 

Mr. Garrett was widely known for his activities in the interest of the Republican party, but he steadfastly refused to seek any office.
The only exception was that he was Republican committeeman in Atchison township for many years prior to moving to Maryville.
In his political circles Mr. Garrett gained the friendship not only of township and county officers, but of congressmen and senators.

This obituary appeared in the Thursday, March 10, 1949 edition of the Maryville Daily Forum, Maryville, Missouri