Ila Jeanne (Hagie) Logan 1928-2012

HAGIE LOGAN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/24/2012 at 11:41:52

Sioux City Journal
September 01, 2012

Ila Jeanne "I.J." Logan, 84, of Moville died Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be 11 a.m. today at Moville United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Ed Frank officiating. Burial will be in Arlington Township Cemetery. Visitation will be 10:15 a.m. until service time today at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of McCulloch Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Home in Moville.

Ila Jeanne (Hagie) Logan, the second daughter and youngest child of Larry and Eula Hagie, was born on Aug. 23, 1928, in Sturgis, S.D. She attended Iowa State College and was a member of the cheer squad, Gamma Phi Beta Sorority and Iowa State Singers.

Howard and IJ met at Iowa State College, where they dated, broke up, got engaged to others and then rekindled their relationship. Per IJ, it was quite the surprise to her sorority sisters when she arrived from their honeymoon married to Howard. The specific details are still up for debate. They were married on July 30, 1950, in Osceola, Iowa, and have three children, Charles Hagie, Jane Heathcote and Amy Laird. Howard and IJ celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary this year.

Throughout her life, IJ devoted herself to the service of others. She was a member and past president of the Moville Women’s Club, a member of Eastern Star, Scout leader, and P.E.O., and active in church activities. In the late 1960s, she returned to school and earned a degree in guidance counseling, and counseled at Woodbury Central from 1972 to 1974 before becoming a school psychologist at the AEA. In the early 1980s, she was appointed to the Governor’s Council for Developmental Disabilities and served on its executive council for several years.

In 1992, IJ suffered a brain aneurysm leaving her with limited use of the left side of her body. Even so, she has been part of WC’s elementary school reading program. Twice weekly, she offered reading assistance to first-grade students. She also established A Step Ahead, a scholarship program for Head Start children.

The 20 years following her stroke, IJ implored her friends and family to remember how she was, not how she is. Even though IJ was not the same wife, mother and grandmother following her stroke, she failed to realize that her patience, persistence and perseverance left lasting impressions on her children and grandchildren. IJ’s inability to accept defeat challenged those she interacted with on a daily basis to continue to live life to the fullest and not accept mediocrity. Whether traveling to her beloved Caneel Bay, St. John, USVI, cheering on the Cyclones, writing numerous round robin letters to her sorority sisters, golfing at the Meadows Country Club, or completing crossword puzzles on a daily basis, IJ refused to color within the lines.

She is survived by her adoring husband, Howard; her older sister, Janice Hagie Shindel of Santa Fe, N.M.; children, Charles (Val) of Colorado, Jane of Moville and Amy of Moville; grandchildren JillAlice (Caleb) Hoakison, Casey Webb, Todd (Danielle) Kuebler, Alex Logan, Elizabeth Kuebler, Mallory Logan and Robin (JW) Beck; and great-grandsons, Harlan Barnes, Tyan Beck, Samuel Kuebler and Brantley Hoakison.

IJ is preceded in death by her parents; and brother-in-law, George Shindel.

Memorials will go toward handicapped parking at United Methodist Church in Moville.