Hagen, Vernon B. (1926-2018)
HAGEN, LEE, CHOSE, ELSER, SYLTIE, ALMELIEN, GRAVES
Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 11/16/2018 at 15:39:21
Vernon B. Hagen
November 22, 1926 - September 30, 2018Surrounded by his loved ones, Vernon Bennett Hagen, age 91, passed away on Sunday September 30, 2018, at the Lake Mills Care Center.
Vernon was born on November 22, 1926, to Jens and Elizabeth (Lee) Hagen at home in Joice, Iowa. He attended school in Joice. After graduating from high school in 1944, he enlisted in the Army Specialized Training program in Brookings, South Dakota. After his eighteenth birthday, he was sent to Camp Hood, Texas, for basic training. Next, he was sent to the Philippines to train for the invasion of Japan. After serving in occupied Japan for eighteen months, he returned to the U.S. and was honorably discharged in November of 1946.
Then, Vernon attended Iowa State College for a two-year program in Dairy Plant Management. On July 25, 1948, he married his high school sweetheart, Carole Mae Heimdal. Before buying the Sunset Creamery in Ellendale, North Dakota, however, he worked at the creamery in Thornton, Iowa. In 1965, he accepted a position at Deluxe Products in Lake Mills, Iowa, where he worked until he retired in 1991.
Vernon enjoyed hunting, golfing, camping, and hiking. Indeed, he loved the outdoors and his many fishing trips to Canada and Leech Lake, Minnesota, as well as to other places with family and friends. In addition, he participated in many community activities including building a Habitat for Humanity home with his good friend, Jim Tweed. Nonetheless, he, most, loved his family and helping them with home improvement projects. Moreover, he enjoyed watching his grandchildren and great grandchildren perform in various activities.
Vernon is survived by Carole, his loving wife of seventy years; his children: Steven, and his wife, Sue, of Rudyard, Michigan, Kathy Chose, of Lake Mills, Gail, and her husband, Dan Elser, of Billings, Montana, Jane, and her husband, Walt Syltie, of Brookings, South Dakota, and Russell, and his wife, Lenora Hagen, of Victor, Iowa, and her daughter-in-law, Hallie Hagen, of New Ulm, Minnesota; as well as by sixteen grandchildren and eighteen great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his son, Alan, and his son-in-law, Mark Chose; his brothers: Hubert, Julian, Norman, and Earl; his sisters Bernice Almelien and Avis Graves; along with many nieces and nephews.
A Celebration of Life Service will be held at 11:00 AM, Monday, October 8, 2018, at Salem Lutheran Church, 401 South Lake Street, Lake Mills, Iowa 50450, with Pastor Joel L. Guttormson officiating. The Lake Mills Otto/Chose American Legion Post #235 will provide military rites. Vern’s family will greet friends between 4:00 and 7:00 PM, Sunday, at the Mittelstadt Funeral Home, 902 East Main Street, Lake Mills, Iowa 50450. “Our family will have a private inurnment at Beaver Creek Cemetery at a later time.” The family, also, suggests that memorials be made to the Salem Lutheran Church Building Fund, 401 South Lake Street, Lake Mills, Iowa 50450.
Mittelstadt Funeral Home, Lake Mills, Iowa, 2018.
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