Sandra Vogelson, 73, civic leader

Before M. Allan Vogelson became a judge in 1995, he sometimes dined in Atlantic City in the early 1980s with Pete Rose, who was the Phillies' first baseman from 1979 to 1983.

They shared the table with Carol Woliung, who in 1984 would become Rose's second wife.

They were dining at the Playboy Hotel & Casino because Woliung was a Bunny waitress there.

And because Vogelson's wife, Sandra, was, as she wrote in her resumé, " 'Bunny Mother,' the executive in charge of over 400 Playboy cocktail and dealer Bunnies."

Now a retired Superior Court judge, Vogelson recalled that his wife "loved people, and they returned the affection."

On Tuesday, June 2, Sandra Klinshaw Vogelson, 73, of Cherry Hill, a public relations executive who established the Camden County College Foundation in 1992, died of cancer at home.

Susan Bass Levin, Cherry Hill mayor from 1988 to 2002 and president since 2005 of a separate entity, the Cooper Foundation, said, "South Jersey will miss her."

Levin recalled that Mrs. Vogelson was a founding chair in 2010 of a Cooper Foundation annual event known as Pink Roses Teal Magnolias, a fund-raiser for the MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper.

"She was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2009," Levin said, yet "she always had a smile on her face. . . .

"We crossed paths because she was involved in so many things," Levin said. "In everything she did, she was always a leader."

In 1992, Mrs. Vogelson established and became the first director of the Camden County College Foundation.

"She was instrumental in getting it off the ground," college spokeswoman Susan Coulby said. Mrs. Vogelson then served as a foundation trustee for 20 years, until 2013.

Mrs. Vogelson graduated from Haddon Heights High School in 1959 and studied art at Camden County College in the 1990s, her husband said.

After working at the casino, in the 1980s she co-owned with her husband two retail stores, in Echelon Mall and Haddonfield, both known as Sandee's Sweaters & Things.

In the early 1990s, she was the dining room manager at Franchine's, a supper club in Cherry Hill.

Later that decade, her husband said, she was marketing and public relations director for the Harbor League Club, a private meeting place in a Camden high-rise.

And she was a board member of Cooper's Ferry Development Association, which morphed in 2011 into the Cooper's Ferry Partnership, whose website states that it works to revitalize and promote Camden.

Besides her husband, Mrs. Vogelson is survived by daughters Susan Spivak, Sharyn Bucci, and Sherry Dawson; eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

A visitation was set from 11:30 a.m. Friday, June 5, at Platt Memorial Chapels, 2001 Berlin Rd., Cherry Hill, before a 12:30 p.m. funeral service there, with interment in Locustwood Memorial Park.

Donations may be sent to http://foundation.cooperhealth.org.

Condolences may be offered to the family at www.plattmemorial.com.

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