Rogers Co. Obit for: Virginia K. "Ginger" (Kracht) Stewart 
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Rogers County Archivist: Bill Cook, wcook14024@aol.com
Submitted to the Rogers County Oklahoma Archives 
Date: 5/25/2002 by: Bill Cook, wcook14024@aol.com
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Virginia K. "Ginger" Stewart

Services are set in Iowa for Virginia K. "Ginger" Stewart of Claremore, former 
Claremore Progress writer. She died Saturday, May 4, 2002 at Hillcrest Hospital 
in Tulsa. She was 55. 
Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at the Church of God in Ida Grove, 
Iowa, under the direction of Christensen-Huffman Funeral Homes, Ida Grove. Dr. 
Herbert K. Johnson will officiate the service, with burial to follow in the Ida 
Grove Cemetery.
 
Friends may call at Christensen-Huffman Funeral Home in Ida Grove from 6-8 p.m. 
on Wednesday, where the family will be present. 

There will be a prayer service at 7 p.m.
 
Ginger was born Sept. 24, 1946 in Storm Lake, Iowa, the daughter of Orville and 
Dorothy (Rehmeier) Kracht. 

She graduated from Kearney High School in 1964, and on March 20, 1966, married 
Merritt Stewart in Ida Grove, Iowa. 

Throughout the years, the couple lived in Sioux Falls, S.D., and Lincoln and 
Omaha, Neb. For the past seven years, they made their home in Claremore, where 
Ginger was employed for three years as a staff writer for the Claremore Daily 
Progress. Most recently, she devoted her time to writing a book about Andy 
Payne, which was in the process of being published.
 
Ginger returned to school at 40, and earned her bachelor's degree from the 
University of Nebraska in 1990. She was an avid writer, a nature lover and also 
enjoyed fishing. A talented artist, Ginger made ink drawings on suede leather 
and also enjoyed antiques, but her greatest pleasure in life was her family. 

Her family includes her husband, Merritt; daughters and their husbands, Dawn and 
Dean Homan of Sugar Land, Texas, Heather and Jayme Goebel and Brook and Dale 
Roach, all of Lincoln; grandchildren, Meghan and Seth Homan and Erica and Skyler 
Goebel; her mother, Dorothy Kracht of Lincoln; brother, John Kracht of Lincoln; 
and sisters and their husbands, Kelly and Jim Rosenquist of Palmdale, Calif., 
and Tammy and Dave Gordon of Lexington, Neb.
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