Ray Lee Boger

1936 - 2021

Ray Lee Boger

February 17, 1936 - May 5, 2021

Ray Lee Boger, 85, of Mount Pleasant, died Wednesday, May 5, 2021, at home, surrounded by his family, after many years of declining health from Parkinson's.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, May 7, at First Baptist Church Concord, with Dr. Jim Collier and Pastor Arron Edwards officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church Cemetery. The Boger family will greet friends following the committal.

Mr. Boger was born Feb. 17, 1936, in Cabarrus County, to the late Adam Lee and Mable Blackwelder Boger. He served his country in the U.S. Army. He was an active member of First Baptist Church Concord and a former Sunday school teacher and deacon. He was also a Gideon and a Mason. During his life, he worked as a barber for 56 years and 40-plus years as a truck driver. He enjoyed working and being outside, hunting, fishing, and working with tractors or in his garden.

He is survived by his wife, Margaret James Boger; sons, Jesse Boger and Tony Boger (Kathy); daughters, Cindy Cook (Joey) and Patty Whitley (Danny); a brother, Bobby Boger (Rita); sister, Edith Moose; six grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, memorials in Mr. Boger's memory may be made to Gideon's International, P.O. Box 902, Concord, NC 28026; First Baptist Church Concord, P.O. Box 643, Concord NC 28026; or to the Hospice and Palliative Care of Cabarrus County, 5003 Hospice Lane, Kannapolis, NC 28081.