1927
Ronald
2011
Ronald Tagge
June 9, 1927 — January 8, 2011
Ronald Tagge, 83, of Boelus died Saturday, January 08, 2011 in Harlingen, TX.
Memorial services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday at Messiah Lutheran Church in Grand Island. The Reverend Harvey Johnson will officiate. A private family inurnment will be held at a later date. There will not be any visitation, Ron's wish was to be cremated.
Memorials are suggested to the Boelus Fire Department.
Jacobsen-Greenway Funeral Home in St. Paul is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Tagge was born June 9, 1927 in the Cameron Community in Hall County, son of William and Hilda (Seim) Tagge.
Ron attended high school in Wood River and then the Grand Island College. He also attended the University of Minnesota and Wisconsin, Northwestern University and Lasalle Institute in Chicago.
He was confirmed in the St. Paul English Evangelical Church in Grand Island.
Ron worked with Swift and Company for his entire career being a director of various areas within the company. He served as office manager in Spencer, IA and Marshall, MN, retiring from the St. Louis office.
After his retirement, he did auditing for eight years in the United States, Canada and Mexico, then five years in Chicago followed by his final years in management in St. Louis when Swift divided and became Estech.
After his retirement he moved to Omaha, then lived in Lincoln, Grand Island before moving to his beloved cabin on the middle Loup River near Boelus.
Ron served in World War II and the Korean War. He was a past board member of the Platt-Duetsche in Grand Island, American Legion and VFW, and at the time of his death was a board member of the Howard County Medical Center and the Howard County Medical Center Foundation.
He enjoyed many sports especially football at Nebraska where he attended all games beginning in 1970. He proclaimed Centura kids to be the best in America and he knew the DCB baseball was the greatest as well as were the basketball teams and the coaches.
When Ron lived in Chicago he taught Junior Achievement to the deaf and also taught at the Cook County Jail in Chicago. He was an associate of the Safer Foundation with the US Department of Justice commencing in 1965 and also worked with the FBI for several years while living in Chicago and St. Louis.
He traveled extensively, spending much time in Africa, mainly Egypt, Kenya and Tanzania. He traveled to China, India (where there were cousins) Thailand, Nepal, the jungles, Israel and Europe. He spent a lot of time in Mexico and Alaska (seeing cousins again) with his best friends Joe Young, Paul Janulewicz, Danny Boltz Gary Eilenstine and Gary Halm and their families.
He also spent much time in his condos and citrus groves in South Padre, TX and enjoying the visitors that came to see him.
Ron is survived by Jerry and Betty Tagge and their children, Nate and Zac of Omaha; a sister-in-law, Lois; nieces and nephews in Green Bay; Lavern Jr. and his wife Peg and their daughters Erin and Dana from North Carolina and over 2000 cousins of whom he admired and spoke to often. He was very close to the five Bosselman girls he considered as sisters.
He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers and a sister-in-law, Bill Tagge and Lavern and Betty Tagge.
Memorial services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday at Messiah Lutheran Church in Grand Island. The Reverend Harvey Johnson will officiate. A private family inurnment will be held at a later date. There will not be any visitation, Ron's wish was to be cremated.
Memorials are suggested to the Boelus Fire Department.
Jacobsen-Greenway Funeral Home in St. Paul is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Tagge was born June 9, 1927 in the Cameron Community in Hall County, son of William and Hilda (Seim) Tagge.
Ron attended high school in Wood River and then the Grand Island College. He also attended the University of Minnesota and Wisconsin, Northwestern University and Lasalle Institute in Chicago.
He was confirmed in the St. Paul English Evangelical Church in Grand Island.
Ron worked with Swift and Company for his entire career being a director of various areas within the company. He served as office manager in Spencer, IA and Marshall, MN, retiring from the St. Louis office.
After his retirement, he did auditing for eight years in the United States, Canada and Mexico, then five years in Chicago followed by his final years in management in St. Louis when Swift divided and became Estech.
After his retirement he moved to Omaha, then lived in Lincoln, Grand Island before moving to his beloved cabin on the middle Loup River near Boelus.
Ron served in World War II and the Korean War. He was a past board member of the Platt-Duetsche in Grand Island, American Legion and VFW, and at the time of his death was a board member of the Howard County Medical Center and the Howard County Medical Center Foundation.
He enjoyed many sports especially football at Nebraska where he attended all games beginning in 1970. He proclaimed Centura kids to be the best in America and he knew the DCB baseball was the greatest as well as were the basketball teams and the coaches.
When Ron lived in Chicago he taught Junior Achievement to the deaf and also taught at the Cook County Jail in Chicago. He was an associate of the Safer Foundation with the US Department of Justice commencing in 1965 and also worked with the FBI for several years while living in Chicago and St. Louis.
He traveled extensively, spending much time in Africa, mainly Egypt, Kenya and Tanzania. He traveled to China, India (where there were cousins) Thailand, Nepal, the jungles, Israel and Europe. He spent a lot of time in Mexico and Alaska (seeing cousins again) with his best friends Joe Young, Paul Janulewicz, Danny Boltz Gary Eilenstine and Gary Halm and their families.
He also spent much time in his condos and citrus groves in South Padre, TX and enjoying the visitors that came to see him.
Ron is survived by Jerry and Betty Tagge and their children, Nate and Zac of Omaha; a sister-in-law, Lois; nieces and nephews in Green Bay; Lavern Jr. and his wife Peg and their daughters Erin and Dana from North Carolina and over 2000 cousins of whom he admired and spoke to often. He was very close to the five Bosselman girls he considered as sisters.
He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers and a sister-in-law, Bill Tagge and Lavern and Betty Tagge.
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