Walter Hoag

WALTER HOAG MUSCATINE, Iowa - Walter Hoag, 80, of Muscatine, died on Monday, December 3, 2012, at Genesis Hospital, East Campus, Davenport. Funeral Service will be 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, December 6, 2012, at the Bloomington-Muscatine Friends Church. Reverend Jerry Philips will officiate. Honorary bearers will be Charity Staggs, Mackenzie Johnson, Heidi Furlong, Heather Noll, Jennifer Rickman, Brandie Carman, Genea Custer, Molly Betts, and Kerri Henn. Bearers will be Scott Hoag, Steve Hoag Jr., Brad Spray, Kenny Jay, Travis Hoag, Brock Hoag, Cody Hoag, Tyler Hoag, Ryan Hoag, Joe Betts, Jim Betts, and J.T. Betts. Burial will take place in the Bloomington-Muscatine Friends Cemetery. A time of food and fellowship will be held at the church following committal service. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, December 5, 2012, at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Bloomington-Muscatine Friends Church. Walter was born on November 23, 1932, in Lockwood, Missouri, the son of Paul and Freda Zimmerman Hoag. He married Joyce Schmitt Fisher on May 28, 1976, in Muscatine. He was a US Navy veteran serving during the Korean ...[more]

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. He was also in the reserves for 12 years. He farmed all of his life and when he retired from farming, he worked as a security guard for Grain Processing Corporation. He had also worked as an orderly for Muscatine General Hospital for years. Those left to honor his memory include his wife, Joyce Hoag of Muscatine; five sons, Keith Hoag and wife, Judy, of Gonzales, Louisiana, Dale Hoag and wife, Joyce, of Muscatine, Steve Hoag and wife, Debbie, of Illinois City, Illinois, Kevin Hoag and wife, Jean of Mechanicsville, and Dean Hoag and wife, Kari, of Manheim, Pennsylvania; two daughters, Jill Jay and husband, Brian, of Davenport, and Jane Spray and husband, David, of Bettendorf; 21 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren; and one twin brother, Ralph Hoag and wife, Shirley, of Muscatine. He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Paul Hoag Jr.