HAGE, Neal A. 1955-1997

HAGE, AUGE, SMITH

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 3/25/2009 at 20:47:00

CHARLES CITY, IOWA - Neal A. Hage, 32, Spur, Texas, formerly of Charles City, died Friday (May 16, 1997) at the University Hospitals, Lubbock, Texas.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, Main and Gilbert Streets, Charles City, with the Rev. Dennis D. Niezwaag and the Rev. Karen Rask Behling officiating. Burial will be in the Riverside Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 1 to 9 p.m. today at the Fullerton Hage Funeral Home, 401 Blunt St., with the family receiving friends from 5 to 6 p.m.

Those planning an expression of sympathy may wish to consider memorials to the Neal Hage Memorial Fund.

Neal Hage was born January 2, 1955, in Iowa City, and was the son of Almer ''Bud'' and Shirley Ann Smith Hage. Neal was baptized and confirmed at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charles City. He attended Charles City Schools.

He was united in marriage to Tina Rae Auge on Aug. 30, 1986, in Tulsa, Okla. They lived in Oklahoma, then he studied nursing in Colorado. They moved to California for a year where he was employed as a courier. After moving to Montana, he studied in the medical field at the Bryan Institute. During this time, he recorded books on tape for the blind and tutored others.

He received his Associate of Science in Human Services from the College of Great Falls in December of 1993 and graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Counseling Psychology and a minor in Criminal Justice from the University of Great Falls, Great Falls, Montana. He was working as a Counselor/Psychological Technician at the Montana State Prison and the Dickens County Correctional Center. He was a member of the Professional Counselors Association, and the American Psychology Source Association. Neal enjoyed playing football, water skiing and swimming. During high school, he enjoyed participating at the Charles City YMCA. Neal's favorite pastime was playing the guitar and bass; he also sang in the choir at church and school.

Living family members include his wife, Tina; one daughter, Regan; and one son, Sayer, all of Texas; his mother, Shirley and her husband, Virgil Jacobson, of Charles City; his paternal grandmother, Anna Hage, of Jewell; numerous aunts and uncles including Dr. M.L. Hodson and his wife, Pat, of Belleair, Fla.; Mrs. Arlene Smith of Hopkinton; Frank and Charlotte Silkebaken of Belle Plaine; Robert L. Johnson of Coronado, Calif.; Mrs. Mary Ann Van Langen of Longmont, Colo.; his mother and father-in-law, Rod and Marlow Dawson of Cedar Falls; and three brothers-in-law, Tony Auge, Tyler Green and Cameron Green.

He was preceded in death by his father, Almer ''Bud'' Hage.

GLOBE GAZETTE - 05/21/1997