This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#281351) Emilie Vogt 1874-1947 <http://iagenweb.org/boards/clayton/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=281351> AUTHOR: Judy Moyna DATE: 5/24/2010 at 23:48:16 Surnames: VOGT,SEIFERT,GLAWE,BENDER,MORITZ,ZAHRNDT,BUCHHEIM,MATHEWS,FUELLING,LENTH,MUELLER,MAHNKE,OELKE,LANDGREBE Mrs. Fred Vogt 1874-1947 Farmersburg, Ia.-Special: Funeral services for Mrs. Fred Vogt, 71, were held from the Witt funeral chapel, Elkader, to St. John’s Lutheran church, Farmersburg, Tuesday afternoon. The Rev. K. Landgrebe, Garnavillo, officiated. Burial was in the Clayton Center cemetery. Mrs. Vogt died at the University hospital, Iowa City, Ia., Saturday, following surgery. Emilie Seifert, daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. F. W. Seifert, was born in Clayton Center on April 8, 1874. She was married to Fred W. Vogt on Oct. 10, 1902. The couple resided on a farm near Clayton Center until 1916, when they moved to Farmersburg. Mr. Vogt died in January, 1929. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Theodore (Lillian) Glawe, Farmersburg Township, and Miss Marian, at home; two grandchildren, Mrs. Marinette Bender and Mrs. Homer Moritz, both of Elkader; three great grandchildren (Judy Bender, David Moritz and Paul Moritz); three sisters, Mrs. Sophia Zahrndt, Elkader, Miss Lenora Glawe (sic), Farmersburg, and Mrs. Katie Buchheim, Clayton Center; and three brothers, Fred and Otto Seifert, both of Clayton Center, and Ernest F. Seifert, Elkader. Pallbearers at the funeral were James Mathews, Louis Fuelling, Gus Lenth, Marvin Mueller, August Mahnke, and Henry Oelke, all of Farmersburg.