Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:00 am
July 4, 1935 - Oct. 25, 2008
Betty Mozelle Linton Vogel, 73, of Sweet Home, died Oct. 25, 2008.
A private service was held Oct. 28 at Gilliland Cemetery in Sweet Home.
She was born in Velma, Okla., on July 4, 1935. In 1951, she graduated from McLeansboro High School in Dale, Ill. After attending business college in St. Louis, Mo., she moved to Algiers, La.
While living in California, she worked at Aerojet.
She married Donald Arthur Vogel in June 1956. In the early 1960s they moved to Sweet Home, where they had a small cattle ranch on Wiley Creek Drive. They later moved to Redlands, Calif., where they started a computer data processing company. They returned to their Oregon ranch in 1977.
During the '80s, she earned a bachelor of science degree in anthropology and a master's degree in archaeology from Oregon State University. She worked for several years as a curator of the Marion County Museum in Salem.
She is survived by her mother Beatrice Copeland of Sweet Home; son Robert Vogel and daughter-in-law Leslie Funderburg of Portland; brother and sister-in-law Dale Ray and Cinde Linton of Ontario, Calif.; brother-in-law Dick Vogel of Keizer; two nieces; one great-niece; and one great-nephew.
Her father and husband died before she did.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to St. Labre Indian School, Ashland, MT, 59004, on the web at www.stlabre.org.