Edwina Woolery Vogan

VOGAN, WOOLERY, SCOTT, ARCHER, DICK, LYNCH

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 7/27/2006 at 16:39:35

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
November 16, 1988

EDWINA WOOLERY VOGAN, El Paso, Texas

Edwina (Woolery) Vogan died in Sun Towers Hospital in El Paso, Texas on Oct. 30, 1988, of heart failure. She was born on a farm near Truro, July 5, 1911, the daughter of Dana E. and Sadie (Scott) Woolery.

Following her mother's death Edwina made her home with Ollie and Maude Archer and a cousin Leo Dick whose parents had also died. She attended Truro Consolidated School and was graduated from there in 1929, then began a 41-year career in education.

She began by teaching in Madison County rural schools and taught children in the elementary grades in Truro, St. Charles and Johnston, while continuing her college training in the field of education.

In 1936 Edwina married Glenn A. Vogan. While he was overseas in the armed forces, she worked for the Navy in Washington, D.C. After the war, she continued her teaching caareer in Illinois, Oklahoma and Texas, serving as elementary principal in several El Paso schools.

Edwina was preceded in death by her parents, a brother, Claude, and her husband, Glenn. Survivors are her son, Richard Glenn and wife, Linda Vogan, their three children, all of Little Rock, Ark.; a sister, Lyla Lynch of St. Charles, the cousin with whom she grew up; Leo Dick of San Jose, Calif.; nephew Gary Woolery of Webster City, and great nephew Steven Woolery of Belmond, Iowa.

Graveside services were held Nov. 2 at Fort Bliss National Cemetery in El Paso, Texas.