Raymond K. Vogt

Brother Ray

 

By Doug Boilesen 2018 (my uncle and half-brother of Betty Ann Barr)

 

Ray Vogt, who was born on May 12, 1901 at Elba, Nebraska to Frank and Anna Ellen Ender Vogt. Ray had one brother, Chris Vogt, a sister Fay Vogt and twenty-three years later a half-sister Betty Ann Barr.

 

Ray and Fay Vogt, circa 1906

 

Fay, Chris and Ray Vogt, circa 1908

 

Ray, Chris and Fay c.1910

 

Ray grew up in the Elba area.

In the July 8, 1920 Cotesfield News section of the Howard County Herald it was reported that Ray married Miss Marjorie Johnson in a quiet ceremony at the court house in St. Paul.

 

Mrs. Raymond Vogt is identified as singing a duet at Sister Fay's wedding in 1922.

 

In 1923 Ray was playing baseball for Cotesfield as their pitcher and also "won his own game" in the tenth against Wolbach "with a long drive scoring Horak."

The Howard County Herald, May 10, 1923

 

In 1923 Ray was discarded by Cotesfield's fast team and pitched a very clean game for Elba to beat Cotesfield 12-1.

The Howard County Herald, August 16, 1923

 

In 1927 Ray was living in Dannebrog when he accompanied his brother Chris, Hilda and their baby Dorothy to Hilda's parents Mr. and Mrs Tom Jensen in Cotesfield (Howard County Herald, June 2, 1927).

 

Like his brother Chris, not a lot is known about Ray's personal or work life. In the February 6,1929 Howard County Herald we learn that Ray was living in Grand Island and was selling cars (Chevrolet and Buicks). It was also reported that on the previous Saturday evening Raymond had come up from Grand Island and visited his wife at the N. B. Johnson home (her parents). On September 4, 1929 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Vogt of Grand Island came to Elba to celebrate the fifth birthday of Betty Ann and the second birthday of Margery Ann. On November 11, 1931 Ray, apparently unaccompanied, attended a surprise birthday party for his brother Chris and cousin Kenneth (who had the same birthday). In that same edition of The Phonograph newspaper it was reported that Ray had motored to Western Nebraska in hopes of finding some corn husking work. (2)

It appears that Ray's marriage ended in 1931 as Ray Vogt and Edna Dallas were Thanksgiving guests at Anna and Manley Barr's in November 1931. (1)

At one point in the early 1930's Ray left Nebraska and when he came home after working in the foundries back East he was very yellow and sick. Betty Ann remembered that her mom kept a jar of money in the cellar. After Ray came home sick she remembers that Ray needed some money to get to Denver for his health and that she had a "very vivid memory of her Mom going down into the cellar to get him some money."

At niece Marjorie Ann's funeral in September 1935 Raymond Vogt signed as a "Relative Attending" in the "Treasured Memories" book and Edna Dallas signed in the "Friends who Called" section. "Raymond Vogt & Edna Dallas" are listed together in the "Tributes from Friends" section.

Ray married Edna Mae Dallas on March 4, 1936 in Ohio.

 

Reception for Mr. and Mrs. Ray Vogt, March 18, 1936 Howard County Herald

 

 

Ray and Edna Vogt (with Sister Fay behind Ray) November 1947

 

Ray and Edna had an adopted son, Gary (circa 1938).

Betty Ann lived with Ray and Edna in Grand Island for her final two years of high school, commuting on weekends back home to Cotesfield. Betty's mother wanted her to attend high school at the larger Grand Island Senior High School (rather than Cotesfield High School) where she thought Betty could get a better education. Betty Ann graduated from Grand Island High School in 1943.

 

 

 

Manley, Ray, Edna, Anna, Betty 1950 in Grand Island for a picnic (the same day the Veterans Hospital opened)

 

 

 

Chris, nephew Doug and Ray at a family picnic in Grand Island, Nebraska ca. 1953

 

 

 

The Grand Island Independent, January 5, 1943 - Ray's mom Anna wrote on this clipping "My Ray."

 

 

Edna, Ray and Gary circa 1953

 

 

Dinner at Lyncrest, December 1956 in living room - L-R Grandma Barr, Mom holding Bev, Doug, Gary, Edna and Ray.

 

Edna, Gary and Ray circa 1945

 

 

 

Raymond K. Vogt, May 12, 1901 Elba, Nebraska - February 16, 1983.

Edna Mae Dallas Vogt, December 22, 1907 - April 20, 1982.

Edna's father, Albert Dallas's great-great grandfather founded and had the city of Dallas, TX named for him.

 

 

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