Lucille Waggoner Dec. 8, 1929 – March 21, 2025

      Lucille Waggoner, 95, died Friday evening, March 21, 2025, at University Hospital, Iowa City following a brief illness.

    Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, March 28, 2025, at Wayne Zion Lutheran Church, rural Monticello with interment in the Wyoming Cemetery. Pastor Phil Jorgensen will officiate at the services. Visitation will be held from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the church. Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello has taken Lucille and her family into their care. In Lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Jones County Senior Center or Onslow Community Club.

    Surviving are nieces and nephews, Sherry (Don) Keppner, Diane (Tom) Ebert, Bonnie Niemtschke, Beverly (Larry) Moser, Cindy (George) Ricks, Tina Carson, Claudette (Bill) Bryant, Darlene (Larry) Daniels, Joyce (Pete) Bartels, Tom (Jennifer) Orr Denise (Kirk) Waggoner-Nipper, Lori Waggoner, and Jim (Amy) Christianson, and many great nieces and nephews.  Lucille was also fortunate to have many special neighbors that were like family, Mark and Kris Doll, Julie and Dennis Orris, and Judy and Tom Clark.  She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Paul; siblings, Marvin and Joyce; and a niece, Ellen Cox.

    Lucille Irene Woodward was born at home in rural Burlington, Iowa on Dec. 8, 1929, the daughter of Homer and B. Lois Gehring, Woodward. Lucille attended Brush College rural school and graduated from Burlington High School. She then attended Burlington Junior College, Iowa State Teachers College (UNI), the University of Iowa and University of Boulder, Boulder, Colo. to obtain her teaching certificate. Lucille taught mostly second and third grade starting in 1950 at West Union, Anamosa, Fort Madison, Wyoming, and Onslow. Lucille married Paul Waggoner on June 16, 1957, at the First Methodist Church, Burlington. The couple farmed near Onslow. She substituted in grades kindergarten through eight, retiring in 1971 to help Paul on the farm. The couple built a new home in Wyoming and left the farm in 1993.

    Lucille was a member of the Altrurian Federated Women’s Club in Onslow, the Teachers Association and Jones County Porkettes, where she held many offices.