Christie J. Logsdon (1922-2006)

LOGSDON, SKOLA, HEGGEM, WHALEY, MCCORD, POHLMAN, FRANTZEN, BAUER, BEAL, TOWNSEND, THOMPSON

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 12/24/2006 at 08:50:22

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Saturday, December 24, 2006.

Christie J. Logsdon
Jan. 12, 1922-Dec. 22, 2006

Christie J. Logsdon, 84, of Maxwell, died Dec. 22, at Story County Medical Center in Nevada. Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 26, at the Maxwell Cemetery. There will be no visitation.

Logsdon was born Jan. 12, 1922, in Slater, the daughter of Thomas and Celia Heggem Skola. She graduated from Shipley High School in Shipley. She was united in marriage to Floyd Logsdon in 1950. Floyd preceded her in death in 1975. She worked for the Iowa Department of Transportation for 11 years before getting married. She and her husband were in the grocery business for 10 years in Guthrie. They then moved to Maxwell, where they owned and operated Logsdon Grocery. She worked in the store until 1985 and often was seen after that working in the store until her death. She was a member of the Maxwell Presbyterian Church and the American Legion Auxiliary Post 249. She loved her grandchildren, the New York Yankees and the Iowa Hawkeyes.

She is survived by her four children, daughter Janice (Dennis) Whaley, son Thomas Logsdon, daughter Julie (Michael) McCord and son Jay (Sue) Logsdon, all of Maxwell; six grandchildren, Ben McCord, of Osceola, Kim (Dar) Pohlman, of Maxwell, T.J. (Kaylen) McCord, of Overland Park, Kan., Mark Whaley, of Collins, Jill Logsdon, of Maxwell, and Rachel Logsdon, of Des Moines; two great-grandchildren, Gemma and Keegan Pohlman, of Maxwell; her sister Millie (Karl) Frantzen, of Omaha, Neb., and her brother, Don Skola, of Ames. She is also survived by many nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her sister Dorothy Bauer; step-sisters, Alberta Beal, Evelyn Townsend and Maxine Thompson; and a sister-in-law, Bette Skola.

Bacon Funeral Home in Maxwell is in charge of arrangements.

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