Carolyn Sue Baird Ogg

Carolyn Ogg, of Newton, passed from this life peacefully on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, at Park Centre Health Center in Newton.

Carolyn was born on Jan. 22, 1917, in North English 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 County 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 of Osage Beach, Mo., daughter-in-law Paula Ogg of Edina, Minn., one sister, Sara (John) Conde of Columbia, S.C., five grandchildren, Tim (Misty) Ogg of Tuttle Okla., Jeffrey (Susann) Ogg of Prairie Village, Kan., Scott Ogg of Keller, Texas, Brian (Tracy) Ogg of Fort Smith, Ark., Katy McCarron of Edina, Minn., 11 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one infant sister; 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.

The family will have a memorial service and celebration of life at a later time, with private burial in the Newton Union Cemetery, with Pence-Reese Funeral Home handling the arrangements.

Memorials in Carolyn’s name are being designated to the Kellogg Historical Society.

Online condolences may be left for the family at www.pencefh.com.