Virginia R. Hogeboom

Virginia Ruth Hogeboom, 100, of Sioux City, passed away on June 3, 2017 at a local nursing home.
Services will be 10 a.m. Friday at Riverside Lutheran Church. Visitation with the family will be 5 to 7 p.m. today, with a prayer service at 6:45 p.m., at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Berkemier Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Home. Online condolences can be made at www.christysmith.com .
Virginia Ruth (Madison) Hogeboom was born on Nov. 29, 1916, on the family farm near Dakota City, to Peter R. and Olga C. (Pedersen) Madison. She attended grade school at the Metz Rural School and graduated from South Sioux City High School in 1933. In 1934 and 1935, she helped her father sell truck farm produce at the Madison Farm Market at W Fifth and Perry Street in Sioux City.
From 1936 to 1942, she taught two years each in three different rural schools in Dakota County, Neb. Upon completion of the two-year teaching course at Wayne State College in 1943, she began teaching the elementary grades in Sioux City at Riverview and Smith schools. During the war years, she did office work on summer jobs at a shipyard in Wilmington, Calif., and at a tent factory in Denver, Colo.
She married Charles E. Hogeboom on Oct. 12, 1946, at First Lutheran Church in South Sioux City. The couple lived in South Sioux City until 1957 when they moved to the Riverside neighborhood of Sioux City, where her husband had become manager of the Riverside Burke Lumber and Coal Co.
Virginia resumed teaching in 1961 in the Sioux City schools, first as a substitute teacher and then as a Title I reading teacher at Sacred Heart School. Upon completion of her BS degree at Morningside College in 1971, she taught Title I reading at Riverview School until her retirement in 1982.
She belonged to Riverside Lutheran Church, where she served in many capacities. She was also a member of Sioux City Retired Educators, Iowa Retired Teachers, Laura Chapter Order of Eastern Star in South Sioux City, where she was a 75 year member and Past Matron, and American Legion Auxiliary in Elk Point, S.D.
Virginia loved caring for plants and flowers, and enjoyed reading. She also enjoyed many travels with her late husband, Chuck, who passed away in March 1996.
She is survived by her three children, Charles E. Jr. and his wife, Karen of Annandale, Va., Cheryl A. and her husband, Jerome D. Smith of Cary, N.C., and Robert A. Hogeboom and special friend, Felicity of Sioux City; three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; a brother, Russell R. Madison of Lexington, Ky.; and a sister, Carol Sherwood of Salisbury, Md.
She was preceded in death by an infant son, Richard; brothers, P. Raymond, Roy E., Wilbur C. and Howard Madison; and sisters, Doris VanDyke and Fern Sund.
Memorials may be made to Riverside Lutheran Church.