Claude A. Vogt 1917 - 1997

VOGT, BATES, BANKS, HILL

Posted By: Linda H Meyers (email)
Date: 6/3/2009 at 14:35:48

Claude A. Vogt Jan. 9, 1917, to Aug. 24, 1997

Claude A. Vogt, 80, of Nevada, died from complications of Diabetes on Sunday, Aug. 24, at Rolling Green Village.

He was born to Charles A. and Della M. (Bates) Vogt at Shipley on Jan. 9, 1917. He graduated from Shipley High School.

On Sept. 5, 1943, he married Kathryn I. Banks at Pleasant Grove Church in rural Ames. He served in World War II in the U.S. Army as a heavy machine gunner and was wounded in action in France on July 25, 1944, for which he received the Purple Heart. He also received the Silver Battle Star.

He worked as a meatcutter for grocery stores in Cambridge and Ames, and he retired in 1979. He was a member of the William F. Ball American Legion Post #48 in Nevada, and he had been a Boy Scout leader. His hobby was raising rabbits. He had lived in Nevada most of his life.

Survivors include his wife, Kathryn, of Cambridge; a son, David, of Mountain Grove, Mo.; a sister, Angeline Hill of Boone; a brother, Forrest, of Meriden; four grandchildren; and four great-granddaughters.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, Aug. 27, at Cooper-Ryan Funeral Home in Nevada with Pastor Dennis Reynolds, of the Nevada Baptist Church, officiating. Burial was held in the Nevada Cemetery with military rites by the William F. Ball American Legion Post #48. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Diabetes Association.

---from the Nevada Journal 8/28/1997