Fogle, Crystal Bryan
From Lane Co Oregon
Crystal B. Fogle was a historian focusing on Springfield. She was born May 14, 1905 and died February 15, 1986. She was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery. On her plaque is stated: "Beloved Wife and Mother".
Springfield News, Tuesday, September 11, 1979
Before Joe and Maude Bryan and daughter Crystal started on a trip to San Diego in 1917 they had printed a Springfield, Oregon sign to fit below the windshield of their Buick touring car.
"Dad and mother were proud of their hometown and wanted everyone to know about it," Crystal Bryan Fogle recalled 52 years later.
"In those days when Interstate 5 was years in the future, the road up the hot central valley of California was dusty and full of chuckholes."
"We didn't encounter much traffic, but our sign got a lot of attention," she said.
Mrs. Fogle credits her parents with instilling in her a sense of pride for Springfield, which has made her the city's unofficial historian.
"Dad, who owned a grocery store, was on the school board two different times when new schools were constructed and was a sparkplug in the Commercial Club, the city's chamber of commerce in those days," Mrs. Fogle said.
"At the same time mother was very active in the Civic Club, a woman's adjunct of the Commercial Club, and even more important to me, active in the Springfield Pioneer Club, organized in the 1930s.
