SERVICE
Trinity Lutheran Church
Appleton City, Missouri
Monday, July 7, 2008
11:00 AM

MINISTER
Pastor Daniel Mackey

VISITATION
Hill & Son Funeral Home
Appleton City, Missouri
July, 6 2008
6:30 - 7:30

INTERMENT
Appleton City Cemetery
Appleton City, Missouri

MEMORIAL
Trinity Lutheran Church

Elsa Vogt was born August 10, 1911 near Rockville in Bates County, Missouri. She was the third of eight children born to Leonard and Lydia (Hammer) Vogt.
At the age of four, Elsa was struck by infantile paralysis (polio). She nevertheless attended public and parochial (Lutheran) schools in Prairie City, Missouri.
Elsa stayed on the home farm most of the time until 1940. She then moved to Los Angeles, California and worked in electronics for 30 years. After that she returned to Missouri and stayed with her mother in Prairie City for two years. In 1973 she bought a home of her own in Appleton City, Missouri.
Elsa is a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod and always sang in the choir. She recently moved to a senior citizens' apartment complex in Appleton City. Elsa is very close to her family and her hobbies are knitting, crocheting, quilting and sewing. Elsa was always happy and friendly to everyone she met.
Preceding her in death were her parents; three sisters, Viola Russell, Clara Bracher and Florence Gast; and three brothers, Ernest Vogt, Leonard Vogt and Oswald Vogt. Survivors include her brother Arthur Vogt of Rochester, New York; two sisters-in-law Esther Vogt of Appleton City, Missouri and Alice Vogt of Kansas City, Missouri; numerous nieces and nephews.