MILDRED VOGELSANG

Funeral service for Mildred Wilhemina Vogelsang of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. Pastor Paul J. Short will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park.

Friends may call Saturday at the funeral home from 9 a.m. to service time.

Vogelsang, 87, a former teacher, librarian and historian, died Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1997, at Cape Girardeau Residential Care Center.

She was born Feb. 7, 1910, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Henry H. and Hermena Christine Geldmacher Vogelsang.

Vogelsang was a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, and received a master's degree in library science from Vanderbilt University in 1946.

She was a teacher in Cape Girardeau Public Schools from 1934-43, then was librarian at Central High School until 1972.

In 1953 she served as president of School Librarians of Southeast Missouri District when it was first organized. She worked on the curriculum committee in the State Department of Education to prepare a Guide for School Libraries. She served as president of Missouri Library Association in 1967.

Vogelsang served three terms as trustee of Cape Girardeau Public Library, had been librarian with Historical Association of Greater Cape Girardeau, and was an historian of Old Lorimier Cemetery.

She was a member of St. Andrew Lutheran Church.

Survivors include a nephew, James Vogelsang of Cape Girardeau; and a niece, Jane Schuetz of Toledo, Ohio.

She was preceded in death by two brothers.