Zora Baughman, age 92, of Newell, Iowa passed away on July 3, 2006 at the Good Samaritan Center in Newell.

Funeral services will be Friday, July 7, 2006 at 10:30 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Newell, with Pastor David Schumann officiating.  Burial will be in the Newell Cemetery.  Arrangements are under the direction of the Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Newell.

Friends may call on Thursday, July 6, 2006  from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Newell, where the family will be present from 6:00 to 8:00.

Zora was born in rural Newell, to John James and Hannah (Nielsen) Rogers.  She grew up on a farm east of Newell.  Zora was baptized and confirmed in the Newell Methodist Church and graduated from the Newell School in 1931.  She attended University of Commerce in Des Moines and worked as a secretary in the State House in Des Moines.

On May 25, 1935 she was united in marriage to Glenn Baughman of Newell.  The marriage was blessed by two children: a daughter, Marjorie and a son, Arvid.  Zora was a very busy farmwife but found time for flowers and gardening, church work, 4H, Farm Bureau and caring for elderly family members.  After retirement from the farm and moving to town, she spent many hours quilting and compiling family history, scrapbooks and photo albums.

Zora is survived by a daughter, Marjorie Maschino of Garretson, South Dakota and a son, Arvid Baughman and wife, Coleen of Newell; 10 grandchildren, Deanne Finke (Kory), Mike Maschino (Deb), Brad Maschino (Linda), Brian Maschino (Kim), Greg Maschino (Lisa), Arvid Maschino (Michelle), Joleen Sorensen (Dwight), Kristin Baughman, Dean Baughman (Dawn) and Shannon Baughman (Sandy); 17 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; sister, Iris Turrall of Waterford, Michigan; sisters-in-law, Elsie Rogers of Mount Angel, Oregon, Edris Rogers of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Ruth Rogers of Austin, Texas, and Mildred Rogers of Newell.

Zora was preceded in death by her husband of 61 years; her parents; her four brothers, Richard, Donald, Dean and John; a son-in-law, Jerry Maschino; and sister-in-law, Bernadine Rogers.