OGDEN, Myrtle Augusta Cole 1899-1995

OGDEN, NACK, COLE, PIKE, NICHOLAS

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 6/25/2010 at 23:12:52

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, May 10, for Myrtle Augusta Cole Ogden, formerly of Clear Lake. She died Sunday, May 7, 1995 at Good Shepherd Health Center in Mason City, Iowa.

Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 10, at Schroeder and Sites Funeral Home in St. Ansgar, Iowa. Interment will be in the St. Ansgar Cemetery.

Myrtle Augusta Cole Ogden was born Sept. 11, 1899 near St. Ansgar. She was one of five children of Ida Nack Cole and Henry Cole. She attended local schools and as a young girl helped to nurse Mary Odgen back to health. There, she met the Ogden son, Billie, who later became her husband. They were married July 26, 1919 in the Methodist parsonage in St. Ansgar. Myrtle and Billie farmed in the Otranto and St. Ansgar communities until 1945, when they retired to Mason City.

In 1990, she moved to The Meadows in Clear Lake. The last four years she was a resident of the Good Shepherd in Mason City.

Myrtle was a meticulous homemaker, raising and preserving a large garden and enjoying beautiful roses. Her many family and friends were always welcome for coffee and her delicious home-baked rolls. She was a member of the Clear Lake United Methodist Church, A Methodist Church Circle, the Tuckabachee Club in Mason City, and the Carpenter Legion Auxillary of the Ogden-Nelson Post which was named for her son, Lt. Merle V. Ogden, who was killed in a World War II plane crash in 1944.

Ref: William Ogden She was also preceded in death by her husband, William, in 1978 and sisters Ruth Pike, of Northwood and Pearl Cole of Maywood, Calif.; brothers Floyd Cole of Plymouth and Earl Cole of El Puente, Calif.

She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. William Nicholas (Mary Lou) and her husband; three grandsons and their wives, Bill and Barbara Nicholas, Greg and Julie Nicholas, and Jeff and Jo Ann Nicholas; five great-grandchildren, Carolyn, Greg, Emily, Andrew and Victoria Nicholas, all of Clear Lake.

(Mason City Globe Gazette, from ncigs.org archives]