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Submitted: 10/17/20 • Approved: 10/17/20 • Last Updated: 10/20/20 • R1344451-G1344450-S3
Charles Franklin
US Army Medical Corps
World War II
July 28, 1921 - October 28, 2013
Flora
Nov 9, 1923 - Jan 10, 2017
Flora Orton Bogy, aged 93, passed away peacefully at Phoebe-Sumter Hospital in Americus, GA, on Tuesday, January 10, 2017.
Born in Humnoke, Arkansas, on November 9, 1923, Flora excelled at everything she touched: as an All-Star player on the high school basketball court, as a gifted seamstress and quilter, and as a devoted wife to her husband, best friend, and soul mate Charles.
Flora was a dedicated member of Southside Baptist Church in Stuttgart, where she taught the Preschool-2 Children’s Sunday school class for over two decades. She provided the cornerstones of a strong life foundation in the teachings of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to countless Stuttgart and surrounding community children over the years, preparing for each week’s lesson with care and enthusiasm. After retiring from the children’s class, she led the Ladies’ Naomi Class. The love she carried in her heart for all of her classes shined through her deep blue-violet eyes as brightly as any star in the heavens.
Flora was a strong and courageous woman. She faced and triumphed over some of the biggest, seemingly insurmountable challenges that life could set before her with her deep faith and trust in God and a resilience only found in the most fearless among us. As many other women of the Greatest Generation, she survived the then-hopelessness of the Depression with her parents and siblings and followed her U.S. Army husband to and through the physical and mental tests of World War II. She was the sole caregiver to her younger brother Irvin until his death, and later in life, she endured the untimely and painful loss of her only son Kenneth Edward.
She will be greatly missed by everyone who knew her, but her family and closest friends take comfort in the fact and celebrate the peace of knowing that she has been reunited with her husband Charles whom she missed so dearly, she has been freed from all pain she suffered in her earthly form, and she has been made eternally whole in the sight of our Father and His Son.
Flora is survived by daughter Charlene Bogy Outlaw, three grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and two step-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Franklin Bogy; son, Kenneth Edward Bogy; parents, Robert and Beulah Orton; and two brothers, Robert Henry and Brance Irvin Orton.
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Charles Franklin Bogy, age 92, passed away at Stuttgart Baptist Health Hospital on Monday, October 28, 2013
Born on July 28, 1921, to Charlie and Effie Bogy, Charles is survived by his wife of 72 years, Flora Orton Bogy.
Charles joined President Franklin D. Roosevelt's post-Depression Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at age 16 and served as a physician's assistant in St. Charles, AR. He took the knowledge and skills he learned in the CCC to the US Army Medical Corps in 1941. The World War II Veteran proudly served his country at Camp Howze, TX, until 1946.
Charles married Flora Orton in December, 1942. The devoted couple, who described each other as their best friend, raised two children, Charlene and Kenny. Charles and Flora opened and managed the Singer Sewing Machine Center on Main Street in downtown Stuttgart until he retired due to health complications in 1968.
Bogy, affectionately known to the citizens of Stuttgart as "The Singer Man," began operating a sewing machine repair shop from his home from 1978 until he fully retired in 2012 at age 91. He repaired and maintained the Arkansas County School System's Home Economics Department sewing machines, as well as those of countless Stuttgart and surrounding communities' homeowners.
Charles was a devoted member of Southside Baptist Church in Stuttgart. He was both a Deacon and the Chairman of Ushers for 40 years. God, his Christian faith, and his church family were the cornerstones of his life, and he humbly and softly took his Message to everyone, both friend and stranger alike.
Second only to God and family, Bogy was an avid outdoorsman throughout his life. His passion and hobby were fox hunting, and he tended to his hounds in a way that most humans tend to their own children. His joy of hunting came from the thrill of the chase and hearing his foxhounds trail a fox. He had a close circle of fox hunters who were an extension of his family.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Charlie and Effie Bogy; his son, Kenneth Edward Bogy; two brothers, Cecil and Shelton Bogy; three sisters, Gracie Polk-Bogy; Aileen Bogy Ply; and Frances Bogy Brown; and one brother-in-law, Irvin Orton.
Charles Franklin Bogy will be dearly missed and always loved by his family and friends and by everyone whom his life touched.
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Annette Shaw
Contributed on 10/17/20 by hawkinsdonna48
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