Pastor Milton Hoag

Pastor Milton V. Hoag, age 74, rural Moorhead, MN, died at his home on Monday, January 26, 2004.
Milton Veeder Hoag was born at Harwood, ND, on January 16, 1930. He grew up and went to school in the Harwood area. As a young man, he lived and worked in New York State. He attended North Central Bible College in Minneapolis, MN. After finishing Bible college, he traveled in the state of Kansas as an evangelist.
On October 9, 1950, Pastor Hoag was married to Alice Evon Hayes at Downs, Kansas. Following their marriage, they lived in Silverton, CO, where he was pastor at a local church. After a year, the family made their home in Downs, where Milton became a truck driver. They later lived in Hastings, Nebraska, where Milton worked both as a truck driver and an evangelist.
In 1960 the family moved to Fargo, ND, and in 1963 to rural Moorhead where Pastor Hoag continued as a truck driver and an evangelist. In 1982 he was instrumental in the founding of "Gospel Road USA". He retired from truck driving in 1994.
Pastor Milton Hoag is survived by his wife, Alice, Moorhead; three daughters, Virginia Demmer, Rollag, MN, Pamela (Floyd) Guest, Comstock, MN, and Roxanna (Curtis J.) Lauinger, Fargo; three sons, Milton (Connie) Hoag Jr., Emporia, KS, Thomas (Sharon) Hoag, Mapleton, ND, and Timothy (Debra) Hoag, Hawley, MN; his mother, Mildred Hoag, Fargo; two sisters, Virginia (Walter) Vleck, Buxton, ND, and Marilyn (Marvin) Gunnerson, Havre, MT; twenty grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Visitation: Friday, from 3:00 PM until 8:00 PM
Korsmo Funeral Chapel, Moorhead, and
one hour before the funeral, at the church

Service of sharing: Friday at 3:00 PM
Korsmo Funeral Chapel, Moorhead.

Funeral service: Saturday, January 31, 2004, at 2:00 PM
First Assembly of God, Fargo, ND

Burial: Oakwood Cemetery, Harwood, ND.