She was a prominent figure in the documentation of the indigenous languages of North America, and co-wrote many articles and books with her second husband, Carl Voegelin.
Her second husband was Carl (Charles) Voegelin, a prominent linguist and anthropologist who was her graduate advisor at Indiana University.
[1] She worked at various points as a research associate at the Museum of Northern Arizona[2] and also as a member of the Indiana University Field Station.
She co-authored numerous publications with Carl Voegelin, including work on Shawnee and a series of fascicles on the languages of the world with an eye toward comparative studies, which was also published as an independent volume in 1977.
Voegelin was honored with a dinner at the Arizona State Museum in Tucson and an exhibit entitled Daughters of the Desert: Women Anthropologists in the Southwest, 1880-1980.