Services for Doris Maxine (Rogers) Nordskog

Published by admin on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 7:32am

Doris Maxine (Rogers) Nordskog died peacefully Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, at the Westview Care Center in Britt, IA.

A memorial service was held Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 at Our Saviors Lutheran Church in Leland, IA with lay minister Mr. James Mantel officiating.

Inurnment will be held at a later date.

Memorials may be directed to Hospice of North Iowa, 232 2nd St. SE, Mason City, Iowa, 50401.

Doris Maxine (Rogers) Nordskog was born Feb. 20, 1927 in Beaver, IA, the daughter of Milton and Mabel (Rinker) Rogers. She was the oldest with two siblings, Donna and Merle. She was in a girls’ softball league and played trumpet for the Boone High School Jazz Band. She remembers jumping in back of pickup trucks with other students, instruments and blankets on chilly fall nights to go to another town to perform. Doris graduated from Boone High School.

She was united in marriage to Paul Nordskog in 1945. They moved to the Forest City area in 1947 to farm. Paul and Doris raised three children together, Joseph, Stephen and Martha. Doris was a farmer’s wife, raising three children and owning Doris’ Fabric Store in Forest City for several years. She taught sewing, knitting and quilting classes. She was a beautiful seamstress with much talent. She was active in Forest City Booster Club and Senior Citizen Center.

Doris is survived by her two sons Joseph Nordskog of Phoenix, AZ, Stephen (Deb) Nordskog of Leland, IA, and daughter Martha (Bill) Nordskog-Waters of Redondo Beach, CA; six grandchildren, Chad (Jodi) Nordskog of Leland, IA, Kristi (Todd) Knutson of Ventura, IA, Kim Hauer of Dodge Center, MN, Paula (John) Abbe of Blooming Prairie, MN, Maranda (Dustin) Etter of Garner, IA, and Knudt Lien of Almena, WI; fourteen great-grandchildren, Ben and Sarah Nordskog, Colton, Carlie and Isaac Knutson, Jordan and Paige Johnson, Aaron Niles, Samantha, Jack and Lilly Abbe, and Kalen, Marley and Nick Etter; and by her sister, Donna Harrigan of Forest City, IA.

Those who preceded Doris in death were her mother Mabel, father Milton, Paul Nordskog, brother Merle, brother-in-law Ed Harrigan, and daughter-in-law LeAnn Nordskog.

You can contact the family with on-line condolences at: www.mittelstadtfuneralhome.com.