Nancy Jensen Vogt Nolan

Nancy Jensen Vogt Nolan entered eternal life on July 31, 2013 from a massive stroke that followed years of cardiac issues diabetes and lymph edema. She lived in the Onion Creek community of Austin, Texas for 33 plus years.

Born in Rockford, Illinois on August 25, 1926, Mrs. Nolan was her parents' third and last child. She was preceded in death by both parents and her sister and brother.

In the late 1930s, Mrs. Nolan and her mother moved from Rockford, Illinois to Chicago where she completed her education at Von Steuben High School and Northwestern University. In the mid 1940's she met a Naval Academy selectee, Leonard "Mike" Vogt whom she married following his graduation from the Academy in 1949. Five children were born to the Vogt family during the 1950s, the second of whom, Cathleen, died in her infancy in 1952. In 1965, her husband, then Squadron Commander Vogt, died during a night mission over the South China Sea/Gulf of Tonkin on September 19the, leaving a widow and four children from 15 to 7 years of age.

Four years later, Mrs. Vogt married John J. Nolan, a former Naval officer she had met in 1967. The newlyweds and the Vogt children lived first in Scarsdale, New York followed by Bethesda, Maryland. During those years she greatly enjoyed her volunteer service with the White House Historical Association.

In the late '70's Mrs. Nolan and her husband moved to Texas at the behest of former Governor John Connally, living first in Houston and then, in 1980 establishing their roots in the Onion Creek community of Austin. It turned out to be the longest and final stay of her life. She loved the community, the friendship of the residents and especially the rounds of golf in her earlier years there.

Mrs. Nolan is survived by her husband, John Nolan; her children, Michael Vogt and wife Sharon of Pensacola, FL, Patricia Gleason and husband Tom of Rowayton, CT, Christopher Vogt and wife Cynthia of Kennewick, WA, and Mary Jane Suter and husband Ruedi of Boca Raton, FL and Zurich, Switzerland. Completing her family tree are nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Viewing will be held at Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home, 2620 South Congress Avenue, from 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm on Friday, August 2, 2013. Burial will be held privately away from Austin.