Born to Lydia (Koch) and A. Edwin Gill, Jane Gill was 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.
1941, April 18, Jane married handsome, athletic John Oscar Vogland. Both attended Jefferson High School. They welcomed two daughters, Marijane and Judy Lee into their busy lives, establishing their family home in S.W. 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. in 1978, Jane Vogland became Oregon's first Certified Records Manager (CRM). 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. https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/54477656 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. As the first female president (elected 1975-76, 1982), Jane Voglund authored also a 1984 History of the Oregon Chapter, ARMA: Celebrating 15 years of activities and achievements in the Portland, Oregon business community. In 2009, September, she completed research, writing and saw published "The History of Lake Grove Presbyterian Church," in Oswego, Oregon.
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. She was the family historian, writing memoirs of her Matthews sisters, and a cookbook in honor of her mother Lydia Koch.
Jane was preceded in death by her husband, John Oscar; her two sisters; and her parents.
2018, April 1, 2018, Easter Sunday morning, at age 98, Jane flew to glory.She is survived by her two children and their spouses, Marijane and Larry O'Leary of Vancouver, Judy Vogland and Bob Dayton of Portland; three grandchildren, Barton Brown of Henderson, Nev., Peter Brown of Portland and Taylor Ryder of Pacifica, Calif.; plus seven great-grandchildren.
1941, April 18, Jane married handsome, athletic John Oscar Vogland. Both attended Jefferson High School. They welcomed two daughters, Marijane and Judy Lee into their busy lives, establishing their family home in S.W. 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. in 1978, Jane Vogland became Oregon's first Certified Records Manager (CRM). 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. https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/54477656 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. As the first female president (elected 1975-76, 1982), Jane Voglund authored also a 1984 History of the Oregon Chapter, ARMA: Celebrating 15 years of activities and achievements in the Portland, Oregon business community. In 2009, September, she completed research, writing and saw published "The History of Lake Grove Presbyterian Church," in Oswego, Oregon.
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. She was the family historian, writing memoirs of her Matthews sisters, and a cookbook in honor of her mother Lydia Koch.
Jane was preceded in death by her husband, John Oscar; her two sisters; and her parents.
2018, April 1, 2018, Easter Sunday morning, at age 98, Jane flew to glory.She is survived by her two children and their spouses, Marijane and Larry O'Leary of Vancouver, Judy Vogland and Bob Dayton of Portland; three grandchildren, Barton Brown of Henderson, Nev., Peter Brown of Portland and Taylor Ryder of Pacifica, Calif.; plus seven great-grandchildren.
Born to Lydia (Koch) and A. Edwin Gill, Jane Gill was 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.
1941, April 18, Jane married handsome, athletic John Oscar Vogland. Both attended Jefferson High School. They welcomed two daughters, Marijane and Judy Lee into their busy lives, establishing their family home in S.W. 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. in 1978, Jane Vogland became Oregon's first Certified Records Manager (CRM). 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. https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/54477656 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. As the first female president (elected 1975-76, 1982), Jane Voglund authored also a 1984 History of the Oregon Chapter, ARMA: Celebrating 15 years of activities and achievements in the Portland, Oregon business community. In 2009, September, she completed research, writing and saw published "The History of Lake Grove Presbyterian Church," in Oswego, Oregon.
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. She was the family historian, writing memoirs of her Matthews sisters, and a cookbook in honor of her mother Lydia Koch.
Jane was preceded in death by her husband, John Oscar; her two sisters; and her parents.
2018, April 1, 2018, Easter Sunday morning, at age 98, Jane flew to glory.She is survived by her two children and their spouses, Marijane and Larry O'Leary of Vancouver, Judy Vogland and Bob Dayton of Portland; three grandchildren, Barton Brown of Henderson, Nev., Peter Brown of Portland and Taylor Ryder of Pacifica, Calif.; plus seven great-grandchildren.
1941, April 18, Jane married handsome, athletic John Oscar Vogland. Both attended Jefferson High School. They welcomed two daughters, Marijane and Judy Lee into their busy lives, establishing their family home in S.W. 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. in 1978, Jane Vogland became Oregon's first Certified Records Manager (CRM). 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. https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/54477656 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. As the first female president (elected 1975-76, 1982), Jane Voglund authored also a 1984 History of the Oregon Chapter, ARMA: Celebrating 15 years of activities and achievements in the Portland, Oregon business community. In 2009, September, she completed research, writing and saw published "The History of Lake Grove Presbyterian Church," in Oswego, Oregon.
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. She was the family historian, writing memoirs of her Matthews sisters, and a cookbook in honor of her mother Lydia Koch.
Jane was preceded in death by her husband, John Oscar; her two sisters; and her parents.
2018, April 1, 2018, Easter Sunday morning, at age 98, Jane flew to glory.She is survived by her two children and their spouses, Marijane and Larry O'Leary of Vancouver, Judy Vogland and Bob Dayton of Portland; three grandchildren, Barton Brown of Henderson, Nev., Peter Brown of Portland and Taylor Ryder of Pacifica, Calif.; plus seven great-grandchildren.
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