Paul Vogt
A memorial service will be held for Paul Vogt, 86, Clinton resident and formerly of Corn, at 10 a.m. Saturday at the First Christian Church.
Paul died Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015, at the Methodist Health Care Center in Clinton.
Vogt was born Feb. 1, 1929, on the family farm north of Corn, to Jacob J. and Lizzie (Kliewer) Vogt. He attended one-room country schools through the eighth grade, and graduated from Corn High School in 1948. He received an athletic scholarship to play baseball at Southwestern Technical College in Weatherford. In 1952, he received his B.S. in history and industrial arts.
He married Florence Reimer in 1950, in the Corn Mennonite Brethren Church. His first job following college was at Sentinel High School. In 1956, he accepted a position teaching woodworking and coaching basketball at Cordell High School. In 1962, he moved his family to Reedley, Calif., where he taught eighth grade. The following year, they returned to Oklahoma where he was employed by the Cowden schools.
From 1964 to 1968, he taught English and mechanical drawing, and coached junior high girls’ basketball in Cordell. In 1968, after one year in Reedley, Calif., the couple returned to Corn where he ended his teaching career and became a full-time farmer. In 1997, following their retirement, they moved to Clinton, where they joined the First Christian Church. After Florence’s death in 2002, Vogt married Emma Lou Shepherd in 2007.
He is preceded in death by his wife, Florence; his parents; his siblings, Clara Johnson and her husband, Marvin, Alfred Vogt and his wife, Verna Mae, Jake Vogt, Ivan Vogt and Jim Vogt.
He is survived by his wife, Emma Lou Vogt, of Clinton; his children, Gail Flaming-Brooks and her husband, Randy, of Clinton, Kari Rose and her husband, Steven, of Dallas, Texas, and Jack Vogt, of Portland, Ore.; his grandchildren, Colby Flaming and his wife, Allyson, of Amarillo, Texas, Colin Rose, of Houston, Texas, Caitlin, and Ellie Rose of Dallas, Texas; his great-grandchildren, Will and Simon Flaming of Amarillo, Texas; his sister, Joyce Hinz and her husband, Jim, of Corn; his sisters-in law, Norma Jean Vogt of Corn, Yonzell Vogt of Weatherford, and Johanna Frantz and her husband, Edwin, of Edmond; and numerous nieces, nephews and friends.
Remembrances may be made in Vogt’s name to the Alzheimer’s Association of Oklahoma, 2448 E. 81st Street, Suite 3000, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74137, or The First Christian Church, 111 S. 28th Street, Clinton, Oklahoma, 73601.
Services will be officiated by Doyle Kinney. Interment will be held prior to the church service at Corn Cemetery in Corn.