BAAGO, John Gilger

BAAGO, GILGER, WHARAM

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 8/16/2013 at 23:20:47

JOHN GILGER BAAGO

CLEAR LAKE - John Gilger Baago, 83, of 1316 N. Shore Drive, died Saturday (Aug. 10, 1996) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Agape Christian Family Church in Clear Lake with the Rev. David Toyne officiating. Burial will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery, Highway 18 West, Mason City.

Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St., and one hour prior to service time on Tuesday at the church. The family of John Gilger Baago has requested that memorial contributions be made to Hospice of North Iowa in his memory.

John Gilger Baago was born on March 14, 1913 in Thornton, the son of John and Ethel Mary (Gilger) Baago. He attended and received his education in the Santa Ana, Calif. school system, graduating from Santa Ana High School in 1931. He also graduated from the National Electrical School in Los Angeles, Calif. After completing his schooling he moved to Clear Lake in 1933, and was a day laborer during the depression, and also did carpentry work in the area on his own, and electrical work for Art Hammon. He was united in marriage to Margaretta Wharam on Sept. 21, 1940 in Dubuque.

On Dec. 1, 1943 he was inducted into the U.S. Army at Camp Dodge, Iowa, serving overseas during World War II, where he was an electrical inspector and power plant operator until his honorable discharge on Jan. 7, 1946 at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. Throughout his life he was a self-employed electrician in the Clear Lake area until his retirement in 1981.

He enjoyed fishing, hunting, was an avid gardener, and he and his wife Margaretta enjoyed wintering in Florida. He was a member of the Iowa Electrical Association and former president.

Survivors include his wife, Margaretta Baago of Clear Lake; two sons, Myron Lee Baago and his wife, Sue, of Charleston, W.Va., and Wade Owen Baago and his wife, Mary Ann, of Clear Lake; five grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and a brother, Harry Baago and his wife, Ann, of Clear Lake; as well as other relatives
and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one granddaughter, and one great-granddaughter.