Lorge, Robert G. 1922-2001

LORGE, HOMAN

Posted By: Bob Arens (email)
Date: 8/2/2005 at 20:50:47

LORGE, ROBERT G. 1922-2001
As appeared in the Globe Gazette Obituaries - Mason City, Iowa
Published Wednesday, April 25, 2001

Mason City - Robert G. Lorge, 78, of 502 S. Ohio Ave., died Monday (April 23, 2001) at his home of a brief illness.

A funeral Mass will be held at 10 A.M. on Thursday at Holy Family Catholic Church, 714 N. Adams Ave., with Monsignor Joseph J. Slepicka officiating. Interment will be in Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery with Military Rites conducted by the Mason City Veterans Memorial Association.

Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 P.M. today at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., with a 7 P.M. scriptural service.

Memorials may be directed to the Robert G. Lorge Memorial Fund.

Robert G. Lorge, well known Iowa banker, died on Monday, April 23, 2001, at the family home at the age of 78 after a brief illness. He was born in LeMars, Iowa, on DEC. 11, 1922, to Francis and Clara (Homan) Lorge. The family moved to Pocahontas, Iowa in 1926 where Mr. Lorge started the Pocahontas State Bank. Robert attended Sacred Heart Grade School and High School graduating in 1940.

He attended Loras College in Dubuque until he entered the U.S. Army in 1942. He was with the 24th Infantry Division in the Pacific for three years. Upon his discharge, he returned to Loras College briefly.

He married Mary Jo Murray on Oct. 5, 1954 in Des Moines. He was employed by Pocahontas State Bank until 1951 when he joined the State Banking Department leaving there as a senior examiner in 1961 to become vice president of United Home Bank.

In 1973 he became president and chairman of the board of Pocahontas State Bank, but continued with the United Home Bank until he retired in 1987 as senior vice president. In 1988 he and his wife purchased controlling interest in Pocahontas State Bank which the family sold in May of 2000.

He was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church and throughout his banking career was active in numerous civic organizations.

He is survived by his wife, Mary Jo Lorge, of Mason City; two daughters, Kathy King and her husband, Jim and their children, Bobby, Ashley, and Hunter, of Mason City, and Susan Metzger and her husband, Bradford, and their children, Connor and Mackenzie, of Dallas, Texas; two sister, Mary Hedrick and her husband, Guy, of Mason City, and Joan Koebele and her husband, Paul, of Marquette, Mich.; and many nieces and nephews.

He is preceded in death by a daughter, Julie, in infancy; parents; two grandchildren, Caitlin Metzger in 1994, and Chase Metzger in 1998; two sisters, Anita Krejchi and Margaret Forbes.