Eleanor Smith Bogan

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ELEANOR SMITH BOGAN (Age 88)

A native of Washington, DC and longtime resident of nearby Maryland, died peacefully July 4, 2007 with family by her side in Fort Worth, Texas. Born on January 26, 1919 to Elsie and Mac Smith, she grew up in a modest home on Shepherd St., NW, attended public schools, and graduated from Wilson Teachers College in 1940. In 1941, she married Joe Bogan, and from 1946 to 1972, she supported her husband's career in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), traveling the country with him to Maryland, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Colorado, and California. In 1969, they returned to the D.C. area. She taught English in four states.

After her husband died in 1984, Mrs. Bogan continued an active lifestyle. In 1997, she moved to the Ginger Cove facility in Annapolis, MD until it was necessary to move to Fort worth to be near family, due to declining health. She was a mother, grandmother, homemaker, reader, writer, romantic traveler, gardener, collector of paperweights, and aficionado of bridge and crossword puzzles. She wrote an autobiographical collection of stories about her life titled, "What have you done, Grandma?"

She is survived by her daughter, Tish Bogan Ozmun and husband, Jon Ozmun of Flagstaff, Arizona; son, Joe Bogan, III and wife, Jane Bogan of Fort Worth; sister-in-law, Letitia Gwynn of Annapolis, Maryland; five grandchildren; six great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

Mrs. Bogan will be interred beside her husband in the Fort Lincoln Mausoleum. Memorial services will be held for family in Fort Worth and Flagstaff.