Waggoner, Paul F.

Paul F. Waggoner, 78, died Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011, at Jones Regional Medical Center, Anamosa, following a sudden illness. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 9, at Wayne Zion Lutheran Church, rural Monticello. Interment: Wyoming Cemetery, with military honors. The Rev. Robert Wessels will officiate at the services. Friends may call from 4 until 8 p.m. Tuesday at Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello, where a Masonic service will be conducted at 8 p.m.

Surviving are his wife, Lucille; a sister, Norma Brady, Anamosa; two nephews, Tom Orr, Monmouth, and Jim Christianson, Anamosa; four nieces, Denise Nipper and Lori Waggoner, both of Cedar Rapids, Darlene Daniels, Peoria, Ill., and Joyce Bartels, Nebraska. 

He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Kathryn Orr in 2010; and Galen Waggoner in 2006. 

Paul Franklin Waggoner was born May 31, 1932, in Olin, Iowa, the son of Harold F. and Gesina E. “Lizzie”(Weers) Waggoner.   He received his early education in the Olin schools and graduated from the Onslow High School with the class of 1951. Paul then farmed and also worked at Collins Radio. He went on to serve in the United States Army during the Korean War. Paul married Lucille Woodward on June 16, 1957, at First Methodist Church in Burlington. The couple farmed the Waggoner family farm near Onslow until 1993. They built a new home in Wyoming and moved there in 1994.

Paul was a member of the Wayne Zion Lutheran Church, the Olin Masonic Lodge, the Scottish Rite Consistory in Clinton and American Legion Post 259. He had been a member of the Jones County Soil Conservation Commission, Jones County Pork Board, Jones County Extension Council, Jones County Fair Board, Onslow Telephone Board and Zion Lutheran Church in Wyoming and the Wyoming Zoning and Planning Board. He served in many capacities in all these organizations.

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The family request no flowers and memorials may be directed to Wayne Zion Lutheran Church or Camp Wyoming.