Teresa Sue Bogener

Teresa Sue (Jones) Bogener, 71, of Vero Beach, FL died peacefully at Vero Beach VNA Hospice House on February 24, 2024 after a prolonged illness. She was born on November 28, 1952 to Wayne and Dorothy Jones. Teresa spent most of her childhood in Alexandria, MO. She graduated from Clark County High School in 1970 and subsequently attended Southeast Iowa Community College where she obtained her Associates of Arts degree. She worked at A&W Restaurant in Keokuk, IA and as a visiting home health aid for Lee County Home Health. Teresa married James Edward Bogener and they had one son, James Winston. She was a founding member and president of the ILL-IA-MO chapter of the Model T Ford Club of America, and she worked as a substitute school teacher for the Gorin School District. Teresa obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Iowa Wesleyan University in 1992. She was passionate about early childhood education and intervention and worked as the Parents as Teachers coordinator in Clark County. She also worked to help people who had not finished high school to complete their GED. Each year, she would make and deliver Thanksgiving dinner to the inmates housed at the Clark County Jail. Later in life, she moved to Newton, KS and traveled the United States, seeing all lower 48 states. She then moved with her friend Debbie from Kansas to Florida, where she lived until her death. There she met her companion Walter Poole. They enjoyed traveling back to Kansas and Missouri to see her grandchildren. Walter's love and care brought her great joy and he was a tremendous blessing in her life. "Meemaw" loved being a grandmother and would make her grandchildren crafts each birthday and Christmas. She was tremendously proud of her family. She enjoyed sewing, macrame, and quilling, was a proud lifelong Democrat and was a member of Grace Lutheran Church in Vero Beach.
Teresa was preceded in death by her parents, Wayne and Dorothy Jones and by her friend Walter. She is survived by her son James, his wife Megan, and her four grandchildren Ava, Aiden, Finley, and Ellis, all of Chicago, as well as by her sister Carolyn Galbraith and niece Abby Galbraith, both of Wayland, MO.
Per Teresa's wishes, no memorial service will be held. The family requests no flowers or memorial gifts at this time.
Arrangements are by Thomas S. Lowther Funeral Home & Crematory, Vero Beach.