Funeral services for Carlyle Hagen will be at 1:00PM Thursday, June 11, 2009 at Nathanael Lutheran Church in Alcester. Visitation will be from 2:00-8:00PM on Wednesday at Wass Funeral Home in Alcester with the family present from 6:00-8:00PM and a prayer service a t 7:00PM.

Carlyle was born July 4, 1921, the 10th of 11 children, to Carl and Nettie (Asper) Hagen in Hawarden, IA. He lived on the family farm, which was homesteaded by his great-uncle, Knud Eckernol, in the late 1880s. Carlyle farmed there with Arlo and Verne Hagen until he purchased the farm. He married Bonnie Thorsell on October 10, 1959 in Almehind, MN. Carlyles love was farming, which he did until he retired in 1986. He worked at the Beresford landfill for 14 years.

Carlyle enjoyed playing cards and traveling to visit his nephews. He loved going to baseball games, especially the Sioux Falls Canaries and the Minnesota Twins.

Survivors include his wife, Bonnie Hagen of Alcester; three daughters, Marilee Hagen of Beresford, Jeanine (Roger) Kelly of Tea and Kari Hagen of Sioux Falls; son, Joel (Jeannie) Hagen of Marion, IA; four grandsons, Jay of Eglin AFB, Ft. Walton Beach, FL, Ryan of Marion, IA, Josh and Andrew of Tea, SD; two sisters, Mabelle Larson of Mankato, MN and Doris (Ken) Carlson of Alcester; sisters-in-law, Donna (Roy) Johnson of Taylors Falls, MN and Janice Patterson of Owatonna, MN; over 40 nieces and nephews and a favorite great-niece, Melanie My pal, Mel.

His parents, infant son, John; five brothers, Arlo, Norman, Noble, Lawrence and Olaf; and three sisters, Lillian Olson, Elsa Saugstad and Opal Gullickson preceded Carlyle in death.

The family requests memorials to Nathanael Lutheran Church, American Cancer Society or the Alzheimers Association.