Irma Evelyn Jorgensen Trogdon

Irma Evelyn Jorgensen Trogdon,101, died Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at her home in Colorado Springs surrounded by family. Born June 18, 1909 in Minden, NE to Andrea Andersen Jorgensen and Charles Martin Jorgensen she grew up on the family farm. She attended Hastings College and began a teaching career which led her to Wyoming and later Denver, CO where she met Major James Edmund Trogdon, Jr. from Kansas City, MO, serving in the Army Air Corps at Lowry Field. They married in April, 1942, and had two daughters, Jane Trogdon of Colorado Springs, and Mary Jo Trogdon Wagandt of Baltimore, MD, and resided in Alamosa, CO. She survived her five siblings. Her husband pre-deceased her in 1985.

Irma attended classes at the University of Denver as a young woman and later in life earned a BA from Adams State College. For many years she served as the Deputy County Clerk in Alamosa County working with her husband who was the County Clerk. She was active in Alamosa starting the first kindergarten; heading committees at First Presbyterian Church of Alamosa and teaching the junior/senior high Sunday School; she served as President of the Child Study Club, and was a member of the Association of American University Women among other activities. She enjoyed traveling to other countries, participating in book clubs, gardening, knitting, hiking and dancing. Moving to Colorado Springs in 1988 she became a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Colorado Springs.

In addition to her daughters she is survived by three grand children, Marianne Dickey Trogdon Wagandt, Charles Lewis Wagandt III and James Edmund George Wagandt as well as her son-in-law, Charles L. Wagandt II, nieces Carol Andersen, Lynn Fullington, Sue Gaxiola, Judi Hill, Leslie Holtz and Jacqueline Melton and a nephew Kent Stewart and grand nieces and nephews.

A private inurnmentl service will be held at the Ft. Logan National Cemetery in Denver. The family would like to extend heartfelt thanks to devoted friends and her kind and compassionate care givers Martha Lucia Gomez Rueda and Holly Sweet as well as the comprehensive skilled care and coverage from Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions in honor of Irma may be made to the First Presbyterian Church or the Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care.

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