Lais, Amos J. (1881-1958)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1958 Nov 6 p. 8

Birth date: 1881 Jan 14

text of obituary:

AMOS J. LAIS

Amos J. Lais, 77, lifetime resident of Oregon and Molalla area resident since 1918, died in the Silverton, Ore. hospital Thursday morning, Oct. 23, after an illness of several weeks.

Mr. Lais was born near Hubbard, Oregon on Jan. 14, 1881, to the late John and Susanna Plank Lais. In early life he lived on a farm near Hubbard and at Blodgett, Oregon, coming to Molalla in 1918 where he owned and operated a sawmill, first in the Russellville district south of Molalla and later in the Dickey Prairie district near his present home. Mr. Lais was one of the last old time sawmill men in the Molalla area. He retired in 1951.

He was a member of the Zion Mennonite Church near Hubbard.

His first wife, the former Sarah C. Troyer, whom he married on Nov. 22, 1902 at Hubbard, preceded him in death in May 1939. On June 21, 1940, he married Amy Belle King, who survives along with three sons and four daughters, Ralph of Gearhart, Bert of Molalla, Arthur of Peoria, Ill., Grace Mitchell of Veronia, Mabel Burkhardt of Portland, Mildred Miller of Sweet Home,Blance Pitney of Spokane, Wash.; two sisters, Lydia Shand of Rockaway and Laura Kahley of Hubbard; and aunt, Mrs. Mary Myers of Kokomo, Ind.; 22 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26, at the Zion Mennonite Church near Hubbard, with interment in the church cemetery. Rev. Chester Kauffman and Rev. John Lederach were the officiating ministers.