Roggow, Orville 1918-2005

ROGGOW, PINGEL, BECKMAN

Posted By: Mary Holub, volunteer (email)
Date: 2/18/2008 at 20:52:59

Orville Roggow

LE MARS, Iowa -- Orville Roggow, 87, of Le Mars passed away Sunday, Dec. 25, 2005, at Brentwood Good Samaritan Village in Le Mars.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Grace Lutheran Church in Le Mars, with the Rev. Larry Fett officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Cemetery. Visitation will be after 3 p.m. Friday, with the family present after 4 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Carlsen Funeral Home in Le Mars. Visitation will resume from 9:30 a.m. until service time Saturday at the church.

Orville Edward Roggow was born Feb. 3, 1918, on the family farm in Cherokee County, Iowa, to Henry A. and Anna (Pingel) Roggow. He attended and graduated from Brook Consolidated School. He later attended Chillicothe Business College in Chillicothe, Mo. While attending college, he met his future wife, Linda M. Beckman.

He and Linda were united in marriage on Sept. 22, 1940, near Athol, Kan. The couple were the parents of five children, Norman, Connace, Marva, Diane and Curtis.

The couple lived in Kansas City, Mo., until 1942, when they moved to a farm neat Athol, Kan. In 1945, the family moved to the Roggow farm in Cherokee County, Iowa. They farmed until purchasing the Le Mars Motel in 1967. While operating the motel, he had worked for the Building Center for a couple of years. In 1969, he became an Iowa meat inspector, where he inspected locker plants throughout the area. He retired from that position in 1983. In 1975, he converted the motel into apartments. In 1979, they built their home in Le Mars on Remer Drive and sold the apartments.

During his retirement years, he enjoyed doing custom framing of pictures. He continued this until the last year or so. In his younger years, he enjoyed taking his children fishing at Casey's Dam near Cherokee, Iowa. He also enjoyed working with leather.

He was a longtime member of Grace Lutheran Church and had served his church as an elder, trustee and Evangelism boards. Church involvement and support was very important to the couple. He also was a longtime member of the Le Mars Lions Club., He was a past president and was honored with the Warren Coleman Award by the Iowa Lions Foundation.

Survivors include his children, Connace and her husband, Larry Fraser of Hutchinson, Minn., Marva and her husband, Joe Hansen of Omaha, Diane Roggow of Le Mars and Curtis Roggow and his wife, Kathy of Shawnee, Kan.; eight grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandchild; a sister, Maxine Pithan of Denison, Iowa; and several nieces, nephews and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Linda on March 2, 2000; a son, Norman; a brother, Melvin Roggow; a sister, Viola Drevs; and a great-grandson, Jason Fraser.

Pallbearers will be Jeff Fraser, Brandon Fraser, Damon Fraser, Andrew Roggow, John Fraser and Michael Thiem.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal, Dec. 29, 2005