Billings Gazette Billings, MT 25 Jan 2007 Eva L. Pogue, 84, died on Jan. 21, 2007, at St. John's Lutheran Home in Billings. Eva was born on March 16, 1922, in Billings, the third of eight children of Annie Martin and J. Herman Peterson. Eva grew up in a musical family and had a wonderful voice. She was always in the middle of the large group gathered around the piano for the sing-along at Peterson gatherings, having a great time. All her life, she thoroughly enjoyed singing, dancing and playing the piano. Later in life she liked to listen to recorded music. Eva graduated from Billings Senior High School in 1939, attended Billings Business College, and then worked until 1943 when she enlisted in the W.A.V.E.S. of the U.S. Navy. After attending Yeoman school in Cedar Falls, Iowa, she served at Sandpoint Naval Air Station, Seattle, for the duration of the war. Eva met her future husband, Omar W. Pogue, in 1935, when he came from Brockway to board with her family while attending business school. They began corresponding after he took a job out of town following graduation and then enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force in 1940. While on furlough from his station in the Aleutian Islands, he traveled to Seattle and proposed. Eva would laugh as she told the story of her whirlwind marriage and her mother scrambling to put it together. They were married on Jan. 15, 1945, at the First Congregational Church, in their service uniforms. The war then separated them until October of 1945 when they were both discharged. Eva and Omar had one daughter and three sons between July 1946 and December 1953. Eva always enjoyed the many activities her children participated in, which included sports, scouting and choir. Eva worked for the Bureau of Land Management from 1961 until her retirement in 1981. Eva was active in the Moose fraternal organization, rose through all the chairs of the Women of the Moose (WOTM), and received her College of Regents Degree at Mooseheart in June 1977. She was chosen in 1981 to serve on the International Grand Council of the WOTM for two years, during which she traveled all over the United States and Canada. Eva was preceded in death by her husband Omar in 1989; and her daughter, Deborah Pogue Coleman of Seattle in 2001. She is survived by three brothers, Jim Peterson of Billings, Wes Peterson of Houston and Gene Peterson of North Carolina; her three sons and their wives, Gary and Sheri Pogue of Billings, David and Marilyn Lyons-Pogue of Billings, and Ronald Pogue and Kye Cochran of Quechee, Vt.; and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Memorial services will be at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 27, at First Baptist Church, corner of Third Avenue North and Division Street, with interment to follow at Terrace Gardens Cemetery. The family asks that any memorials go to St. John's Lutheran Home Endowment Fund, 3940 Rimrock Road, Billings MT 59101.