Duane Everitt Hagedon 1927-2012

HAGEDON MENTJES

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/17/2012 at 13:47:10

Sioux City Journal
February 24, 2012

SIOUX CITY -- Duane E. Hagedon, 84, of Sioux City went to be with his Savior and Lord Jesus Christ on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, at Touchstone Living Center.

Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Morningside Assembly of God Church in Sioux City, with the Rev. Johnny Helton officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 5 to 8 p.m. today at Waterbury Funeral Service in Sergeant Bluff.

Duane Everitt Hagedon was born July 19, 1927, in Rock Rapids, Iowa, the son of Albert and Anna Hagedon. He graduated from Morningside College in 1952.

He married Betty June Shipman on June 14, 1952. She passed away on Jan. 12, 1969. He married Emily (Mentjes) Sorenson on Oct. 11, 1975; unfortunately, they divorced in 1978. To his first marriage, three daughters were born, Vicki, Connie, and Judy. With his second marriage, he was blessed with a son, Dirk.

Duane enlisted in the U.S. Army and served the last few months of World War II. Returning home, he worked in the family businesses until he went to college. Upon graduation, he married Betty and worked for a greenhouse in Sioux City. They later moved to Worthington, Minn., where he worked for Campbell Soup Co. and started his own pest control business. They returned to Sioux City, where he was employed as an inspector by the Sioux City Health Department for 23 years. Finally, he worked his small farm and was a seed dealer until shortly before he died.

Survivors include his daughters, Vicki and husband, Daniel Hodgins of Sioux City, Connie and husband, Jay Fox of Rapid City, S.D., Judy of Sioux City; son, Dirk and wife, Tonia of Osakis, Minn.; grandchildren and great-grandchildren, DaniSue Peterson (David) and their children, Leanna, Samuel, and Victoria of Bronson, Iowa, Benjamin Hodgins (Tiana Veldhuizen) and their children, Eden, Ember, and Ezra of Sioux Falls, S.D., Isaac Hodgins (Jackie Nielsen) and their children, Madeline, Christian, Noah, and Mercy, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Nathaniel Hodgins (Sarah Knox) and their children, Natalie, Shawn Daniel and a baby due in August of Windom, Minn., Jacob Fox (Erin Grubaugh) and a baby due in August of Rapid City, S.D., Levi Fox of Bolivar, Mo., Rebekah Fox of Rapid City, Hailey and Tyson of Osakis, Minn.; sister, Clare (Dick) Kimmel; brother-in-law, Ralph Kahl; and several greatly loved nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife; a great-grandson, Elias Hodgins; brothers, Albert, Alfred and Ralph; sisters, Katherine Abbott, Marge Kahl, and Annabelle Kahl; brothers-in-law, Pierce "Bud" Abbott and Phil Kahl; sisters-in-law, Lee, Louise, and Angie.

The family is especially grateful to the staff of Touchstone Living Center and Hospice of Sioux City for their wonderful, loving care of our dad during his last days. Memorials in his name may be made to one of these organizations.