----Source: TRIBUNE-RECORD-GLEANER (Loyal, Wis.) 03/19/2003

Hoeg, Mary A. (15 FEB 1922 - 13 Mar 2003)

Mary A. Hoeg, 81, Spencer, died on Thursday, March 13, 2003, at Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m., on Monday, March 17, at Community Funeral Home, Spencer. The Rev. Karl Rose officiated. Burial was in the West Spencer Cemetery.

Mary Annie Hammer was born on Feb. 15, 1922, in Nomdal, Norway, to Adolph and Agnes (nee Breveck) Hammer. She immigrated to the United States in 1923 and settled in Sinia, S.D. She married Ove Hoeg on March 1, 1942, in Madison, S.D. She became a U.S. citizen in 1955. The family moved to Wisconsin in 1960 and settled in the Spencer area in 1964. She retired from Land O’Lakes in 1992.

Survivors include two sons, Richard Hoeg, Fulton, Ill., and Bruce (Mary Ann) Hoeg, Tacoma, Wash.; six grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; five sisters, Astrid (Rueben) Evans, Sedro Woolley, Wash., Dolores (Wally) Gunderson, Sand Creek, Wyo., Edith (Orville) Eldie, Bryant, S.D., Barbara (Robert) Taylor, Beaumont, Texas, and Janice (LeRoy) Peterson, Hartford, S.D.; four brothers, Kenneth Hammer, Mt. Vernon, S.D., Walter (Milley) Hammer, Huron, S.D., Everette (June) Hammer, Huron, and Adolph "Duffy" (Shirley) Hammer, Caldwell, Idaho; and two daughters-in-law, Sharon Niemann, Edgar, and Norma Hoeg, Colby.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Ove, in 1974; two sons, David Hoeg, in 1978, and Phillip Hoeg, in 1993; and two brothers, Oscar Hammer and Alvin Hammer.

Community Funeral Home, Spencer, assisted the family with arrangements.