OBITUARY: Eugene Martin Boge, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Mitchell County Press-News, online, www.mcpress.com, Posted Nov. 21, 2001]

                              Eugene M. Boge
                              
Eugene M. Boge, age 81, a resident of 2872 130th Street, Charles City, died
Monday, November 12, 2001 at Chautauqua Guest Home, Charles City. A funeral
mass was held on Friday, Nov. 16, 2001 at the Immaculate Conception Church
in Charles City. Rev. Stanley J. Hayek officiated. Hauser Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.

Eugene Martin Boge was born Sept. 17, 1920 in Bankston, IA the son of Bernard
and Gertrude (Gerkin) Boge. He received his education in country schools in
North Buena Vista. He served in WWII in the Army in the S. Pacific in
particular, New Guinea where he was wounded for dead.

On Sept. 2, 1947 he and Eva Huckle were married at Le Mars. They moved to
their farm north of Charles City in 1949. During the fifties, he operated
a sawmill, operated Boge's Tap and Grill in Colwell in the early 1970's and
Boge's Lawn and Leisure in 1980's. During these years, he and Eva spent
winters in Brownsville, TX.  "Gene" loved to cook.

He was a member of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and was a life
member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Those that preceded him in death were his parents; a son, Barney; seven
brothers; and a sister; and a great-grandson.

Those that survive him include his wife, Eva of Charles City; three sons,
Kenneth Sr. and Pam Boge of Orchard, Gordon, "George" and Janet Boge of
Charles City, and Roger and Teresa Boge of Klemme; three daughters, Linda
and Bob Dodd of Klemme; Teresa Boge and Jerry Peters of Floyd, and Norma
Boge and Eldon Conyers of Des Moines; and a daughter-in-law, Norma Boge of
Sacramento, CA; there are 21 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.





Copyright (c) 2001 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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