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Date Posted: 15:42:16 11/18/22 Fri
Author: Fan
Subject: Pageant-related death


Condolences to the Skogen family and the large amount of pageant associates and fans who knew and appreciated Paul (known as Tom) Skogen of Onalaska, Wisconsin, who died on November 16, 2022 at the age of 82.
http://www.dickinsonfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Tom-Skogen?obId=26366705#/celebrationWall

He was a long-time Miss Wisconsin state field director for the western portion of Wisconsin from 1980 to around 2005.

It was Tom who encouraged local festival queen contests to become official Miss Wisconsin local preliminary pageants in the late 1970s and the 1980s, such as Miss Arcadia (the Arcadia Broiler-Dairy Days queen), Miss Cashton, Miss Holmen (the Holmen KornFest queen), Miss Independence, Miss Onalaska (the Onalaska Sun Fish Days Queen), Miss Richland County, and also Miss Sparta (the Sparta Butterfest queen), Miss Tomah, Miss Trempealeau, Miss West Salem, and Miss Whitehall.

Additionally, Tom worked with then-northwestern/central state field director Glen Reit (who is now 87) to re-establish the Miss Wisconsin Rapids program and began the Miss Chippewa Valley and Miss Menominee pageants in the early 1980s.

And while the Miss La Crosse pageant (which crowned winners sporadically since the 1920s) later merged into the then-Miss Oktoberfest pageant to be known as Miss La Crosse/Oktoberfest in 1963, it was Tom Skogen who helped keep the local Miss La Crosse/Oktoberfest pageant to be a strong local competition, which produced two future Miss Wisconsin winners (Gail Marie Soller in 1982 and Barbara Marie Mullally in 1984).

Tom also worked with local pageant producers (namely Marna Holley and Sally Stinson) to start the Miss Western Wisconsin, Miss Wisconsin West, and later Miss Mississippi Valley, at-large pageants for ten years.

The funeral for Paul (Tom) Skogen was held this morning, Friday, November 18, 2022, at his beloved First Lutheran Church in Onalaska, and he will be sorely missed.

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