Christine Louise Smith Zoglman, of Williamsburg, died March 7, 2014, at the age of 69.
She was born in Corunna, Mich. on Oct. 17, 1944, and lived an idyllic life with her parents, playing flute and marching in the Corunna High School Cavalier band. She majored in business education at Central Michigan University where she was active in the sorority Alpha Chi Omega. Her business degree led her to share her typing and shorthand skills with others as a business teacher in Essexville, Mich.
On a weekend trip in May 1966 with friends, she met 1st Lt. Robert “Bob” Zoglman. Their love grew quickly and on Sept. 28, 1966, Mr. and Mrs. Zoglman were married. They moved whenever and wherever the Army ordered them to do so. They welcomed Carrie Royce while Mr. Zoglman was finishing his degree, also at Central Michigan University.
Mrs. Zoglman embraced her role as a military wife and put her career as a teacher on hold to support the family in their many moves. The Army recognized her with the Molly Pitcher Award for her service. She always became active in her community no matter the zip code or the country and participated in homeowner’s associations, book clubs and PTAs. She worked in many school offices and libraries, folded altar linens and arranged altar flowers and taught homebound high school students.
Her hands were never idle, either. Her creative talent was not limited to her music. She has painted many pictures that hang in her home as well as the home of her daughter. She has created myriad needlepoint projects, quilts, stained glass and decoupage to commemorate her husband’s Army appointments, vacation memories, holidays and to welcome new family and friends. She even created the mattes and frames for many of these creations.
In 1992, when her family transitioned to their new lives as civilians in Northern Virginia, Mrs. Zoglman returned again to the business community. This time she was the office manager embracing the much advanced technology since she had last been in the business sector. Shorthand was no longer required, but when one could type with her speed, it simply didn’t matter.
In 2009, the couple finally settled into their forever home in Ford’s Colony, Williamsburg. It is the house of their dreams with room to entertain and a kitchen to make every recipe ripped out of magazines or drooled over on the Food Network. Mrs. Zoglman and her husband even thought of visitors, given their ideal location: There is plenty of room to host overnight guests, including their daughter and her family. She was very active in their church, Hickory Neck, as an usher and member of the prayer shawl guild.
Her husband, Bob Zoglman, daughter, Carrie Bartlett, son-in-law, Dave Bartlett and grandchildren, Spencer and Alexandra Bartlett will miss her greatly but are grateful that she will be welcomed to heaven by her mother and father, Leo and Louise Smith.
You are invited to join in a celebration of life service at 1:30 p.m. March 17, 2014, at Hickory Neck Church. Interment will follow at Arlington National Cemetery at a later date.
Donations may be made to the Hickory Neck Church Foundation, 8300 Richmond Road, Toano, VA, 23168.
Online condolences may be sent online at www.nelsencares.com.
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