Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Clara Cagle

Clara Ora Cagle, 82, of Fort Collins, Colorado, died Saturday, August 3, 2002, at Good Samaritan Village of Fort Collins.

She was born Clara Ora Baker on October 14, 1919, in Nevada County to Homer and Ella Jones Baker. She grew up in Prescott but moved to Little Rock, Arkansas after her marriage to Thomas Cagle. In 1949, she moved with her husband and two oldest children to Denver, Colorado.

She worked as daycare operator for 20 years and as a hostess for a bank for 20 years, retiring at the age of 75.

Her husband, Thomas Jackson Cagle, her daughter, Shirley Ann Staley, and two brothers, Homer Charles Baker, Jr. and Jimmy Joe Baker, and one sister, Karen Oleta Parks preceded her in death.

Survivors include: her son: Thomas J. Cagle Jr. and his wife, Janice of Golden, Colorado; two daughters; Katherine Reynolds and her husband Jeff; Karen Cagle-Smith and her husband Jim, both of Fort Collins, Colorado; one sister: Barbara Lynn Morrow and her husband Tommy of Nashville, Arkansas; seven grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were at 1 p.m., Wednesday, August 7, 2002, at Highland Mortuary Chapel with burial in Highland Cemetery, Thornton, Colorado.

Family and friends will miss her laughter, as well as her horticulture and culinary skills.