Vogt, Selma Mae 1894-1983

VOGT, FOSTER, SHERMAN, COULTHARD, BRADLEY, GETTYS, DARE, NELSON, HISE

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 1/31/2011 at 08:17:16

The Grinnell Herald-Register; Feb. 21, 1983

SELMA VOGT SERVICES HELD

Selma Mae Vogt, 88, of the Mayflower Home died Thurday morning at Grinnell General Hospital.

Funeral services were conducted at 10:30 a.m. today at the Smith Funeral Home, with the Revs. Peter and Allyson Sawtell of the Newburg-Chester Parish, United Church of Christ, officiating.

Organist was Kathleen Heffner, and pallbearers were Larry Black, Joel Cates, Gordon Felper, Edward Hajek, Larry Overmiller, James Smith, Dennis Vogt, Robert Vogt and Gary Wilson. Burial was at Chester Cemetery.

The daughter of Ralph and Adelaide Foster Sherman, she was born June 13, 1894, in Chester Township. She attended Chester Center School and Grinnell High School.

On May 21, 1913, she was married to Clarence A. Vogt at her parents' home. The couple farmed east of Grinnell and later in Chester Township before coming to Grinnell in 1943.

Mrs. Vogt was a member of the Newburg-Chester Parish of the UCC and was active in the Women's Fellowship of the church. She was also a member of the Farm Bureau, the Farmers Union Auxiliary and the Sonora Grange. She was a leader in the Chester Stars 4-H Club and was active in the Grinnell chapter of the Daughters of American Colonists. She had also worked with deprived Indian children, and last summer she had visited St. Mary's School for Indian Girls in South Dakota.

Survivors include her children, Genevieve Coulthard, Donald Vogt and Marjorie Bradley, all of Grinnell; 11 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; and four sisters, Clara Gettys of Oskaloosa, Gladys Dare of Washington, Iowa, Almira Nelson of Alexandria, Minn., and Genevieve Hise of Clearwater, Fla.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1969; a son, Kenneth; and a sister, Beulah, in infancy.