Vegors, Halsey Hugh (1916-1999)

VEGORS, ESLICK, FISHER, MARTIN, DICKERSON, REED

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 12/12/2020 at 10:52:02

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Tuesday, January 26, 1999

Halsey Vegors, 82, of Ames, died Sunday, January 24, 1999 at the Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Faith United Methodist Church, with Rev. Larry Lavelle, officiating. Burial will be in the Vegors Cemetery, southwest of Webster City. Visitation will be at the Foster Funeral Home in Webster City from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Tuesday and prior to the service on Wednesday.

Halsey Hugh Vegors, son of Lloyd and Mae Eslick Vegors, was born July 2, 1916 on a farm near Stratford. He graduated from Webster City High School, Webster City Junior College graduating in 1936. He received a degree from U.C.L.A. in zoology in 1938. On December 30, 1936, he married Roberta Fisher at Los Angeles, CA. During WWII he worked with the National Inventor's Council, reviewing health and nutrition related inventions to help the war effort. For the next 31 years he was a parasitologist with the Veterinary Sciences Research Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. During that time he published over 30 major research papers. After Federal retirement he was on staff for several years with West Virginia Alleghany Highlands Project, to improve livestock productivity for rural farmers. He had resided in Ames since 1976.

He is survived by his wife, Roberta; daughter and son-in-law, Nancy and Hal Martin of Lilburn, GA; sons and daughter-in-law, John Vegors of Ames, Dr. Robert and Susan Vegors of Jackson, TN; grandchildren, Deborah Dickerson, Sharon Reed, Rachel Vegors and Joshua Vegors, great-granddaughter, Heather Dickerson.

He was preceded in death by an infant sister and his parents.

He was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Ames, the American Society of Parasitologists, the Golden K Kiwanis Club of Ames, he was listed in Who's Who in Science, enjoyed photography and traveling as hobbies.

Memorials may be given to the First United Methodist Kitchen Fund or the Appalachian Project.