Joseph E. Hoeger 1930-2011

HOEGER, SCHLICHTE, JASPER, JOHNSON, WAECHTER, WESSELS HALBERG, KLOSTERMANN, SMITH

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Dubuque Telegraph Herald - October 9, 2011

DYERSVILLE, Iowa -- Joseph E. Hoeger, 81, of 560 12th Ave SW, Dyersville, died at 11 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011, at his home in Dyersville.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 10, at St. Francis Xavier Basilica, Dyersville, with Monsignor Charles Schluter officiating and Deacon Dan Hoeger assisting. Burial will be in St. Francis Cemetery, Dyersville. Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. today at Reiff Funeral Home, Dyersville, where there will be a wake service at 4 p.m.

Joseph was born on April 11, 1930, in Cascade, son of Bernard and Eleanor (Schlichte) Hoeger. He received his education in the Xavier School in Dyersville.

He attended the Palmer Barber College in Cedar Rapids from 1948 to 1949. He was a barber in Dubuque and Dyersville for 50 years, retiring in 2004.

He married Lois Jasper on May 1, 1951, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Farley; she preceded him in death on Jan. 28, 2011.

Joseph was a member of St. Francis Xavier Parish in Dyersville.

Surviving are four daughters, Carol (Dave) Johnson, of Iowa City; Margie (Bob) Waechter and Jane (Dean) Wessels, both of Dyersville, and Sara (Dr. Rich) Halberg, of Madison, Wis.; three sons, Kevin (Teresa) Hoeger, of Bucyrus, Ohio, Steve (Karen) Hoeger, of Peosta, and Dave (Jane) Hoeger, of Farley; a daughter-in-law, Kathy Hoeger (Roger) Riesberg, of Dyersville; 21 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Delores Klostermann, of Dubuque, and Betty Jasper, of Farley; sisters-in-law, Clara Mae Hoeger, of Dyersville, Sr. Mary Karen Jasper, P.V.B.M., of Mount Loretta, Dubuque, Mary Smith, of Key West, and Lois Jasper, of Peosta.

He also was preceded in death by two sons, Kenny and Bob Hoeger; two grandchildren, Jody Waechter and Timothy Johnson in infancy; his parents; four brothers, Bernard, Al, Tony and Frank Hoeger; a sister, Vera Curtis; and brothers and sisters-in-law, Kay Hoeger, Dorothy Hoeger, and Gladys Hoeger, Paul Curtis, Vern Klostermann, Val Beyke, Roy Jasper, Orlin Smith, G.A. and Rita Schwendinger, Sr. Mary Philip Jasper and Jim Jasper.