JANE PRISCILLA VOGLAND
May 16, 1919 ~ April 1, 2018
Jane Priscilla Vogland, 98, a longtime resident of Portland, OR, passed away Easter Sunday morning April 1, 2018. Jane Gill was born and raised in Portland with two adventurous and artistic sisters who traveled across the United States via railroad at a young age. Her father, Edwin Gill, a bookkeeper for Union Pacific Railroad, encouraged his young daughter to have strong character and interest in family history. Her mother, Lydia Gill, taught her skills and appreciation for healthy living and care of family.
Jane married handsome, athletic John Oscar Vogland April 18, 1941. Both attended Jefferson High School. They welcomed two daughters, Marijane and Judy Lee into their busy lives, establishing their family home in SW Portland. Jane was an active PTA chair for neighborhood Capitol Hill School and Wilson High School. While John built rock walls, patios and decks, Jane became a Master Gardener and landscaped, gardened and harvested volumes of vegetables, fruits, nuts and grapes.
Jane was a lifelong organizer of all things. Honing her skills with record keeping for doctors, real estate and school office settings, this pre-computer age phenom of a mother became the Records Manager for the Port of Portland and the National Chair for ARMA, traveling the country sharing her organizing practices. She set up systems for the Oregon Governor's office, State of Oregon, Portland Art Museum plus became Chair of Chancel Guild then Archivist for favorite church Lake Grove Presbyterian.
Jane had great energy for family, friends, cooking and entertaining. She could make or do anything. She wrote a memoir cookbook of her mother's recipes and memory booklets of husband John, her sisters, their spouses and her parents. Her greatest pleasures were in preparing a delicious meal, thematically dressing the table with vegetables and flowers from her garden and sharing it all with her children and grandchildren.
Jane was preceded in death by her husband, John Oscar; her two sisters; and her parents.
She is survived by her two children and their spouses, Marijane and Larry O'Leary of Vancouver and Judy Vogland and Bob Dayton of Portland; three grandchildren, Barton Brown, Henderson, NV, Peter Brown of Portland, OR and Taylor Ryder of Pacifica, CA; plus 7 great-grandchildren.
Memorial services for this hard working professional will take place at 1:00 p.m., Friday, May 11, 2018, at Lake Grove Presbyterian Church, 4040 Sunset Drive in Lake Oswego, OR.
Please sign her guest book at: www.columbian.com/obits.
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Remembering Mimi on Easter Day. Love you so much.
April 21, 2019
Mom, The family will be planting "our little maple seedling" you found outside of your window at Glenwood in the "Family Grove" of trees here on the farm later this summer. When you found it it was eight inches tall now it is twelve feet tall. We will watch the color changes just as you loved to do so much.
Hal and Alfonso
HAROLD BROWN
Son
April 12, 2019
Judy and Taylor~
I wish I had known Mimi. She sounds like such a
wonderful and interesting lady that we all could have learned so much from! I'm so sorry for your loss!
Sally-Jo Armstrong
May 10, 2018
Judy and Taylor...My condolences. Thinking of you.
Joni Leaf
May 2, 2018
Nobody else like you. I love you for all the gifts of life you gave me and then showed me the way to get there. I have your hands.
Loving daughter , Judy Vogland
Judy Vogland
April 29, 2018
We Love you Mom and will plant your tree on the farm Family Grove.
Love Hal Brown & Alfonso Hernandez Vidoy
Hal Brown
April 22, 2018
Ed Lee
April 22, 2018
Ed Lee
April 22, 2018
Ed Lee
April 22, 2018
Love you, beautiful Mimi!
Taylor Ryder
April 21, 2018
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