Loma Aileen (Richardson) SKAUGE

SKAUGE, RICHARDSON, WILCOX, OLSON, TIMMERMAN, OFSTETHUN, MARSHALL, VAN RAVENHORST, ROBB, HASTY, BEYER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/29/2008 at 18:14:39

CLARION - Loma A. Skauge, 91, of Clarion, passed away on Thursday (July 24, 2008) at Wright Medical Center in Clarion. Funeral services for Loma A. Skauge will be held at 10:30 a.m., today, Monday, July 28, at the Clarion Church of Christ in Clarion, with Pastor Mark Young officiating. Burial will take place in Evergreen Cemetery, Clarion. Visitation for Loma Skauge was held from 5 until 7 p.m., Sunday, July 27, at the Ewing Funeral Home, 602 N. Main St. in Clarion, and will continue one hour prior to the service at the church on Monday.

Loma Aileen Skauge was born on January 20, 1917, to Duane and Clara Wilcox Richardson on a farm in Wall Lake Township, Wright County, Iowa. She graduated from Clarion High School in 1935. Loma was baptized in December 1929 and was a lifelong member of the Clarion Church of Christ. She was secretary to the Clarion Public Schools Board of Education and Superintendent C. J. Christianson from 1942 to 1947. On July 20, 1946, she married Harold J. Skauge. They resided in Dayton Township until moving to the Meadows in Clarion in 2004. Loma enjoyed her family (mentoring and encouraging her nieces and nephews and their families), gardening, canning, embroidery and handwork, and making many quilts. They had fond memories of their many fishing trips to Canada, and traveling to Norway, Alaska and the Caribbean.

She is survived by her husband, Harold; nieces and nephews: Carrie Ann and Larry Olson of Clarion, James and Jerilyn Richardson of Oak Forest, Ill., Anita and Art Van Ravenhorst of Sioux Center, John and Lavon Marshall of Clarion, Judy and Kevin Ofstethun of Clarion, Ilene and Dale Timmerman of Fort Dodge, Steve and Shirley Hasty of Kanawha, Gary and Darcy Robb of Clarion, Mark Robb of Des Moines, Lisa and Don Johnson of Garner; brother-in-law, Daryl Marshall of Clarion; sister-in-law, Alva Hasty of Kanawha; and brother-in-law Maynard Beyer and wife Barbara of Garner. She was preceded in death by her parents, an infant sister Leta, brother Melvin Richardson, and sister Juanita Marshall. Ewing Funeral Home, 602 N. Main St., Clarion.

Mason City Globe Gazette
7/28/2008