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<\/a><\/p>\nMr. Ogletree was employed by General Mills for 37 years. He started in the Lodi plant, after earning his degree he was transferred to the engineering department. He was transferred to the Minneapolis corporate headquarters for 4 years where he traveled over 1 million miles to different General Mills plants. In 1974 he transferred back to Lodi and became the Cake Mix Plant Manager. Due to his extensive knowledge and years of service he was called Mr. Betty Crocker.<\/p>\n
Gene was an active member of the Tri-Dam Lions Club in Valley Springs. He served in many roles and worked on many club projects. Gene was actively involved in the United Way campaign at General Mills each year. He served as a board member for California cooperative education Association, representing Northern California. He was also an advisor to the School of Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at University of Pacific. At one time he was an advisor to Calaveras High School Ag department. <\/p>\n
He leaves is beloved wife Rosamond: his son Kent and wife Stacey of Mountain Home; and daughter Kelly and husband Patrick of Valley Springs; He also leaves his sister Penny and husband Allen of Paso Roble. He is also survived by 10 Grandchildren and 13 Great-Grandchildren. He was predeceased by his parents and Brother Garland.<\/p>\n
Funeral Services were held at Saint Andrews Church in San Andreas on May 30, 2015. Memorial Gifts can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association http:\/\/www.alz.org.<\/p>\n
Gerald \u201cGene\u201d Eugene Ogletree
\nBorn August 22, 1937
\n8147 Ospital Rd, Valley Springs, CA
\nDied 25 May, 2015 at home<\/p>\n
Cause of death: Complications of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease
\nBS Degree in Engineering<\/p>\n
Served California Army National Guard January 3, 1955 to July 12, 1965<\/p>\n
Packaging Engineer for General Mills for 37 years<\/p>\n
Saint Andrews Parish in San Andreas, Valley Springs Lions Club<\/p>\n
Survivors:
\nSpouse: Rosamond F Ogletree, Valley Springs
\nSon: Kent Ogletree, (Stacey) Mountain Home, Utah
\nDaughter: Kelly Van Lieshout, (Patrick) Valley Springs
\nGrandchildren: Joshua Meacham, Cassandra Ogletree, Tim Meacham, Sarah McCartney, Melissa Ogletree- Sandifier, Randall Meacham, Haley Van Lieshout, Nickolas Burton, Brett Burton, Devon Burton
\nGreat Grandchildren: Scott Meacham, Treycin Meacham, Skyler Meacham, Monique Meacham, Theron Sandifer, Karter Meacham, Destiney Meacham, Nevaeh Meacham, Lanee Meacham, Tatianna Meacham. Addy and Emily McCartney and Reece Burton
\nSister : Penny Duckworth<\/p>\n
Preceded in death: Virgil Ogletree, Father; Lottie Ogletree, Mother; Garland Ogletree, Brother.<\/p>\n
Memorial Service: 30 May, 2015 at Saint Andrews Catholic Church in San Andreas, CA at 11:00 a.m.
\nMemorial Contributions: Alzheimer’s Association – alz.org\u200e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Valley Springs, CA…Gerald Eugene \u201cGene\u201d Ogletree, 77, of Valley Springs died May 25, 2015. He was born in Dumas, TX to Virgil and Lottie (Roy) Ogletree. He received a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Engineering from Sacramento State. In 1955 he was married to the Former Rosamond Kibbe in Yuba City, CA. They have two children. Mr. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,25,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-obituaries","category-valley-springs","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Gene-rocks-002.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}