Obituary of Carolyn Sue Ogg

Carolyn Ogg passed from this life peacefully on January 13, 2015, at Park Centre Health Center in Newton. Carolyn was born on January 22, 1917 in North English, Iowa, to Arthur E. Baird and Edith Hough Baird, the oldest of four daughters. She attended public school there and was graduated Valedictorian of her class. The family moved to the Amboy area in Jasper County in 1936, where she met Donald Ogg from a neighboring farm. They married in 1938 in West Des Moines and moved to Kellogg. They were happily married for 54 years until Don passed away in 1992. Carolyn was a loving wife, full-time mother and homemaker with a variety of hobbies including flower and vegetable gardening and sewing. She was an avid reader and an active volunteer in Kellogg community organizations, Historical Society, Jasper Co. Women's Club, Kellogg Garden Club and Methodist church activities. She was very interested in family history and genealogy doing volumes of work on ancestry charts and photo albums. She worked as a telephone operator and then was the first Avon lady in Kellogg continuing that for 31 years, walking most of the route. She did all this while raising two young boys and caring for her family. Those left to honor Carolyn's memory include son David (Sue) Ogg, Osage Beach, MO, daughter-in-law Paula Ogg, Edina, MN, one sister, Sara (John) Conde, Columbia, SC, five grandchildren, Tim (Misty) Ogg, Tuttle OK, Jeffrey (Susann) Ogg, Prairie Village, KS, Scott Ogg, Keller, TX, Brian (Tracy) Ogg, Fort Smith AR, Katy McCarron, Edina, MN, eleven great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, one infant sister and her sister, Judy Hawkins and her son, James Ogg in 2012. In 1994, Carolyn purchased an apartment at Park Centre in Newton and subsequently entered the Health Center in 2006 where she was given excellent care by the staff. The family wishes to extend grateful praise to all of those caring employees. Graveside and Celebration of Life service will be about 1:30 p.m., Saturday, May 30, 2015, at Newton Union Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 12:30 p.m. until 1:25 p.m., at the Pence Reese Funeral Home, in Newton. Memorials in Carolyn's name are being designated to the Kellogg Historical Society.