SHOGER, James Ormal 1902-1986

SHOGER, JOHANSON, POTTER, ALDEN, DAVIDSON

Posted By: Larry Shoger (email)
Date: 8/16/2009 at 22:37:58

James O. Shoger

NORA SPRINGS, IOWA -- James O. Shoger, 84, Nora Springs, died Saturday (June 14, 1986) at a Nora Springs nursing home.

Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at St. Luke Lutheran Church in Nora Springs with the Rev. David Guetzke, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Park Cemetery, Nora Springs. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. Tuesday at Hogan-Bremer-Sheckler Colonial Chapel in Nora Springs.

Mr. Shoger was born Feb. 11, 1902 in Mitchell county to C.E. and Nettie (Johanson) Shoger. He attended schools in rural Mitchell county.

On Dec. 24, 1928, he married Ruth Potter at the home of her parents in Nora Springs.

He farmed for several years in Mitchell county and for a short while worked for his father-in-law at Potter’s Construction Company in Nora Springs. He was employed for 33 years at Oliver (White) Farm Equipment Company, retiring in 1968. He was a member of St. Luke Lutheran Church and the UAW Local of Charles City.

Survivors include his wife, Ruth, Nora Springs; two daughters, Mrs. John (Marlys) Alden, Pierz, Minn., and Mrs. Tim (Mary) Davidson, La Porte City; and a son, Merlyn James Shoger, Charleston, W.V.; 20 grandchildren and 33 great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by parents, two brothers, a sister and a son.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, dated June 16, 1986]