Richard Lee Scroggs (2012)

FERGUSON, GARDINER, GUERRERO, MILLER, MISH, SCROGGS

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 1/5/2012 at 19:45:22

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

RICHARD L. SCROGGS, Winterset

Richard L. Scroggs, 73, of Winterset died on Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, at the Madison County Memorial Hospital in Winterset.

A memorial service will be held 11 a.m., Friday, Jan. 6, at the First Christian Church in Winterset. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Middle River Hospice of Winterset.

Richard Lee Scroggs was born Feb. 26, 1938, in Des Moines, Iowa, the son of Hubert and Helen (Mish) Scroggs. His marriage to Beverly Gardiner took place in 1958 and to this union three sons were born. He later married Jeanne Ferguson on Jan. 15, 2004, at the First Christian Church in Winterset. Richard worked as a printer most of his working career and was a printing instructor at DMACC in Ankeny for 20 years. He was a member of the First Christian Church of Winterset. He became a lay minister serving as the pastor for the Fairview Church near Stuart and a nursing home chaplain in Winterset. He was a founding member of the Des Moines Area Writers Group.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother-in-law, Paul Miller.

He is survived by his wife, Jeanne of Winterset; three sons, Craig Scroggs of Naperville, Ill.; Jeff Scroggs of Vancouver, Wash.; Jason Scroggs of Greenville, SC; a sister, Susan Miller; a step-son, Matthew Guerrero of North Hollywood, Calif.; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Online condolences may be directed to the family at ochiltree.com.

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