Ogg, Charlotte V. Vander Ploeg – 1908-1953

OGG, VANDER PLOEG

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 7/13/2021 at 21:35:28

Rites Here Monday For Charlotte Ogg
Last rites were held here Monday for Mrs. Wallace Ogg, the former Charlotte Vander Ploeg who passed away Friday evening at her home in Ames after an extended illness.
The Monroe funeral was held in First Baptist church here in the afternoon with the Rev. Mr. Erwin of Ames in charge, assisted by the Rev. Donald Brong. An earlier service had been held in the Christian church in Ames in the morning. Delbert McRae was soloist and Mrs. Rorabaugh was organist.
She was laid to rest in the Monroe cemetery.
Charlotte V Ogg was born February 6, 1908 to Charley and Mary Vander Ploeg on a farm near Monroe, Iowa.
She made a personal commitment of her faith in Christ and was baptized as a member of the Monroe Baptist church at the age of 13.
She graduated from Pella high school in 1925. She received a 2-year certificate at Des Moines University in 1927 after which she taught for two years in the elementary school at Alleman, Iowa. After one year at Ottawa university in Ottawa, Kansas, she received her B. A. degree.
Following her graduation, she was an English teacher in the Colfax school for three years.
On August 21, 1934, Charlotte was married to Wallace E. Ogg. To this union three children were born, Beverly, Nancy and Clayton. In the years following marriage, Mr. Ogg’s work took the family to Oskaloosa, Bloomfield and Cherokee. In 1944, shortly after Mr. Ogg entered the Navy, the family joined him and were together in Tucson, Arizona, and San Diego, Calif. It was while the family was in San Diego that Charlotte had surgery for a malignant tumor. After she was sufficiently recovered to travel, the family went back for a time to Monroe, Iowa, with her parents and then on to Cherokee where she carried the full responsibility for the three children till Mr. Ogg’s release from the Navy.
After graduate work in Chicago, the family moved to Ames in September 1947. Until the time of her final illness, Charlotte was active in the First Christian church. She was a member of the Extension Wives Club, the Economics Wives Club and Faculty Women’s Club.
From the time of her marriage, however, there was one central purpose in her life and that was to be a Christian wife and mother.
When she learned in June 1951 that she could not recover, the change it made in her life was an increased sense of urgency in this purpose.
In addition to her husband and three children who live in Ames, she is survived by two brothers, Arthur Vander Ploeg and Roy Vander Ploeg, and her mother, Mrs. C. D. Vander Ploeg, who all live at Monroe.
Source: Monroe (IA) Mirror; April 23, 1953, page 1