Funeral services were held at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, July 7, 2001, at the United Presbyterian Church in Denison, Iowa, with Reverend Thomas Buzbee officiating. Music was provided by organist, Ann Voggesser and soloist Mary Jane Buzbee. Interment was held at the Manning Cemetery, Manning, Iowa, with LeRoy Childress, Larry Martens, Bob Hansen, Kenneth Graves, Terry Martens, and Don David as casket bearers.

Eldora Rose Hagge was born June 10, 1910, the daughter of Louis and Johanna (Ruhde) Hinz. She died at the Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison, Tuesday, July 3, 2001, at the age of ninety-one.

Eldora was born on a farm in Audubon County, Iowa, near Viola Center. She received her education in a rural school near her home and attended high school in the Manning area. After completing her education, she helped her family on the farm until she was united in marriage to Melvin Hagge, September 12, 1930. The couple settled on farms in the Westside, Manning and Gray regions and was blessed with a birth of one daughter.

She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who enjoyed her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In her younger years, Eldora enjoyed sewing, crafts, cake decorating, camping with the Good Sams Club, square dancing and time relaxing at the cabin at Lake View. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Denison and former member of the VFW Auxiliary in Manning. In 1968, the couple moved to Denison to be closer to their daughter, LaRue. Eldora moved to the Care Center in July of 1999.

Eldora was preceded in death by her parents; husband Melvin in 1996; two sisters: Wilda David and Bernice Graves; and one brother, Delbert Hinz.

Survivors include her daughter, LaRue Hansen and her husband, Fred, of Denison; two granddaughters: Cheryl Campbell and her husband, Warren, of Sac City, Iowa; and Lisa Struchen and her husband, Chuck, of Early, Iowa; four great-grandchildren, Tim and Todd Campbell of Englewood, Colorado; and Ashley and Austin Struchen of Early, Iowa; one sister, Vera Martens of Atlantic, Iowa; sister-in-law, Marilyn Hinz of Ankeny, Iowa; also many nieces and nephews.