Obit: Hagie, Gordon Eugene (1925 - 1965)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Hagie, Meredith, Thomsen, Koehler

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) November 4, 1965

Hagie, Gordon Eugene (15 June 1925 - 2 November 1965)

Funeral services will be held in Neillsville, from the United Church of Christ, at 1:30 p.m. Saturday for Gordon Eugene Hagie, 40, a native of Neillsville who died Tuesday in a Kenosha hospital as a result of injuries suffered in an automobile accident in Kenosha County last Friday night. The services will be conducted by the Rev. W. C. Koehler, with burial in the Neillsville City Cemetery.

Relatives had been unable to contact a brother, Douglas Hagie, who is touring Europe with his wife.  Douglas, a flier with the air force, retired a few days ago after 25 years of service and was making the European tour without known itinerary.

A native of Neillsville, Hagie served with the air force during World War II, and was the crew chief for a P-38 plan flown in New Guinea by Roger Thomsen, a high school classmate and friend.

Hagie was born June 15, 1925, in Neillsville, son of Mrs. Amelia Hagie and the late Edward Hagie.  He attended the Shortville School and was a graduate of Neillsville High School.

He enlisted in the U. S. Air Force and served in New Guinea and the Philippines.  Following his discharge he returned to the home of his parents in Shortville, where he assisted his father in the blacksmith shop work.  He later moved to Milwaukee, and for the last 12 years had been employed by the Allis Chalmers Company.

Hagie is survived by his mother, Mrs. Amelia Hagie of Neillsville; a sister, Mrs. Thomas (Mary Lou) Meredith or rural Neillsville; two brothers Douglas of Topeka, Kans., and John of Marshfield. Other survivors are four nieces and a nephew.

The body will be in state at the Georgas Funeral Home from Friday until an hour before the service, when it will be taken to the church.