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.
