Obit: Hagie, Floyd (1888 - 1961)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Hagie, Gere, Horton, Boldt, Cooper, Goeltz, Harcey

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) July 20, 1961

Hagie, Floyd (29 April 1888 - 17 July 1961)

Funeral services are being held this (Thursday) afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Bergemann Funeral Home for Floyd Hagie, 73, Rt. 2 Neillsville, who died Monday at the Krohn Hospital in Black River Falls. He had been a patient there since June 23, being treated for a heart condition. The Rev. Frank B. Harcey of the United Church will officiate and burial will be made in the Dells Dam Cemetery.

Floyd Hagie, son of the late Eugene and Lunette (Gere) Hagie, was born April 29, 1888, in Fenwood.  When he was a small boy the family moved to the Shortville area, where he received his education in the Shortville School, and then worked in his father’s blacksmith shop near the school.

He served in World War I, having entered service at Neillsville July 13, 1918.  He was a cook at Headquarters Supply Company, O. T. C. at Camp Hancock, Ga.  He received his discharge February 3, 1919, at Camp Grant, Ill.  After his return from service he started a blacksmith shop in the Town of Levis, which he operated for 40 years.

Mr. Hagie was a member of Haugen-Richmond Post No. 73, American Legion, in Neillsville.

On December 29, 1913, he was married to the former Vivian Horton at Neillsville.

He is survived by his wife, a son, Donald Hagie, Rt. 2 Neillsville, and two grandchildren.  Mr. Hagie was from a family of 11 brothers and sisters, of whom four survive. They are: Charles Hagie, California; Mrs. Ella Boldt, Mrs. Effie Cooper and Mrs. Cora Goeltz, all of Milwaukee.