LOGER, Will 1906-1985

LOGER, MURRA

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Date: 12/18/2016 at 06:38:14

Services For Will Loger Held Thursday

Funeral services for Will Loger were held on Thursday, October 3, at 1:30 p.m. at the First Christian Reformed Church west of Wellsburg. Officiating clergyman was Pastor John Gorter.

Richard Schafer sang two selections, "Safe in the Arms of Jesus" and "How Great Thou Art." He was accompanied by Miss Elizabeth Eekhoff who also was organist.

Mrs. Harry Duhn and Mrs. LuRay Meyer were in charge of the flower arrangements.

Casket bearers were Kenneth Bunger, Alvin Blythe, August Haupt, Basil Snyder, Harry Duhn and LuRay Meyer.

Interment was in the First Christian Reformed Church cemetery.

The Doyen Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.

Mr. Loger died at 10 a.m. Monday, September 30, at the Maple Manor Nursing Home in Aplington due to complications of advanced age. He reached the age of 78 years, 9 months and 2 days.

He was born on a farm two and one-half miles south of Wellsburg on December 28, 1906, the son of John and Johanna (Murra) Loger, and received his education in the Shiloh No. 7 rural school in the area. After the passing away of his parents, he and his brother John continued to make their home on the family farm. His brother John passed away on July 9, 1973.

He continued to make his home on the farm until March of 1985, at which time he became a resident of the Maple Manor Nursing Home.

Will was a member of the First Christian Reformed Church of Wellsburg, having made confession of faith on April 3, 1931.

Those preceding him in death were: his parents, his brother John and a half-brother, Matthew Loger.

He leaves to mourn his passing a brother, Matthew Loger of Grundy Center; a niece and her family, Tom and Sandra Simms of rural Grundy Center and many other relatives and friends.

--The Grundy Register/Wellsburg Herald (Grundy Center, Iowa), 3 October 1985