Hundreds remember late Bogle

The choir of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament sings "Amazing Grace"

at the end of Patty Bogle's memorial service Friday. (Katherine Jarvis/Democrat)

Bogle died Feb. 11 at her home in Clarksburg after a battle with leukemia. She was 59.

At her memorial Friday, faith played a large part with the Rev. Dan Madigan welcoming the audience and closing the ceremony. Madigan said after Bogle's death, it's a "time of love, time of faith and time of hope."

The choir of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament sang at the beginning and end of ceremony. Three members of the choir sang Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" midway through the ceremony.

Bogle was a native of Portland, Ore., born June 27, 1951. She was a graduate of Linfield College and moved to Clarksburg in 1973 with her late husband Chris Bogle, who died in 1997.

Bogle ran the family business, Bogle Vineyards & Winery, for nearly 20 years. She also enjoyed traveling, remodeling and spending time with her nine grandkids.

Jo Diaz, a longtime friend who worked with Bogle in the wine business, was the first of two speakers at the memorial. She shared her own stories about Bogle and other people's memories of her.

"(Bogle's) memory will live on in every bottle of petite sirah produced," Diaz said, noting the wine Bogle pioneered.

Diaz added a man from Toronto discovered Bogle wine while in Florida and was unable to find it back in Canada. But the man, who had never met Bogle, sent his sympathy to her family after her death.

The other speaker was Marc Battaglia, who worked in the wine industry with Bogle for 30 years. He said Bogle was "genuine" and "comfortable in her own skin."

He mentioned a time when Bogle was wearing sweatpants in her house, which was the original office for the winery. Battaglia said she was wearing them backward because there was a zipper pocket she thought was supposed to be in the front.

Many others who knew Bogle spoke in a video done in her memory.

"She was so enthusiastic about everything," said her mother, Gloria Schieve.

Schieve talked about her daughter working in the strawberry fields when she was 15, getting a journalism scholarship to college and interning at the Portland mayor's office, among other things.

Chris Catterton, Bogle Vineyards' vice president of sales and marketing, said Bogle was so "giddy" when she met her second husband, Ernie Roncoroni, of Woodland.

Roncoroni said he had a "lifetime" with Bogle in the four years they were together.

At the end of the video, a photo of Bogle's land in Clarksburg could be seen with the phrase, "There's no place like home," in front of it.

Bogle is also survived by her sister, Shirley Alhadeff of Portland; daughters, Jody VanDePol of Clarksburg, Kelly Fransen of Lodi; sons, Warren Bogle of Clarksburg and Ryan Bogle of Sacramento; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and the extended Roncoroni Family.