Obituary-The Neligh News-April 26, 1962

ARNOLD M. BAGLEY

Funeral services were held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Hoepfinger Home for Funerals for Arnie BAGLEY of Oakdale with the Rev. Lisle MEWMAW, pastor of the Neligh First Methodist Church officiating. Interment was in the Oakdale Cemetery with Ike KINNAN, Fred DWORAK, John WYLIE, Bud OFE, Ralph KINNAN and Frank SONNENFELT serving as pallbearers. Arnie M. BAGLEY, son of George and Jane SIMPSON BAGLEY, was born August 13, 1879 at White Water, Wisconsin and died at the Neligh Rest Home on April 21, 1962, at the age of 82 years, 8 months and 8 days. On February 25, 1902 he was married to Miss Mabel HOPKINS at Oakdale and to this union three children were born. After their marriage, the BAGLEYs lived at Newport two years. Mr. BAGLEY came to Oakdale in 1900 and had lived there most of his life. When he was 18 he started working for the North Western Railroad and was employed more than 30 years by the CNW, Union Pacific and Burlington railroads. He served as train dispatcher at Norfolk and other assignments were at Terry, South Dakota, Newcastle, Wyoming, Spencer, Wausa, Newport, Berwyn and Marsland, Nebraska. They operated the hotel in Oakdale for many years and also ran hotels in Wyoming, South Dakota, Wausa, Creighton, Plainview and Tilden. Survivors include his wife, and son, Ed, who is hospitalized in and Omaha hospital, and daughter-in-law, Mrs. George BAGLEY of Santa Fe Springs, California, one grandson and four great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, a daughter and a son.

Obituary-The Neligh News-December 26, 1962

EDWARD BAGLEY

Ed BAGLEY of Oakdale, last member of an Oakdale pioneer family died Sunday, December 23, 1962 from a heart condition while a patient at the University Hospital in Omaha at the age of 54 years, eleven months and ten days. He was born in Oakdale on January 13, 1908 to the late Arnie and Mabel BAGLEY. Mr BAGLEY was associated with his parents in the operation of the Oakdale hotel and was also a musician. Mr BAGLEY was preceded in death by his father in April, 1962; his mother in May 1962, a brother George, and sister, Mrs Zelda HEGER. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. at the Hoepfinger Home for Funerals with the Rev Willis TAPLING of Tilden officiating. Burial will be in the Oakdale Cemetery with Earl MCNARE, Frank SONNENFELT, Ralph KINNAN, Donald OFE, Ike KINNAN and Cecil YOUNG acting as pallbearers.

Obituary-The Neligh News-May 10, 1962

MABEL HOPKINS BAGLEY

Mrs Arnie BAGLEY died Sunday, May 6, 1962, at the Norfolk hospital after a long illness. She was 78 years, 1 month and 28 days old. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, May 9 at the Hoepfinger Home for Funerals. Burial will be in the Oakdale Cemetery. Mabel HOPKINS, daughter of Mr and Mrs A. L. HOPKINS, was born and raised in hotels that her parents operated in different places. She attended school in Oakdale after moving here from Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1897. On February 2, 1902 she was married to Arnie Bagley of Creighton, a young telegraph operator, at Oakdale and to this union three children were born. Survivors are one son, Ed, who is hospitalized in an Omaha hospital, and a daughter-in-law, Mrs George BAGLEY of Santa Fe Springs, California, one grandson, and four great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Arnie, a daughter and a son.