This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bogges, Valentine, Evans, Moorhead Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/6994 Message Board Post: Funeral Services for Floreta Bogges were conducted Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. from the First Baptist Church of Cheyenne with Rev. Aubrey Cowan and Rev. Jeff Hurlbut officiating. Interment will follow in the Fairlawn Cemetery of Elk City under the direction of the Martin Funeral Home of Elk City. Lessie Floreta Bogges was born May 21, 1917 in the Sandstone Community, SE of Cheyenne, Oklahoma to R.M. and Bertha (Valentine) Evans and passed away Friday, October 5, 2006 at the age of 89 years, 4 months, and 15 days. She was raised in the Sandstone Community and attended Sandstone and Herring Schools. She was married to Orvil Lee Bogges on December 24, 1937 at Cheyenne. They made their home in the Herring Community all of their life where Floreta was a mother and housewife and enjoyed working in the fields and gardens with her husband. Her hobbies included corcheting and making afghans especially for her 5 grandchildren and loved to go fishing with the grandkids. She worked several years as a nurses aide at the Cheyenne Care Center and was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church of Cheyenne. She was preceded in death by her husbaqnd in 1997 after 59 years of marriage, her parents, 1 infant sister, 1 brother and her special cousin, Rosella Moorhead. Survivors include 2 sons: Larry Bogges and his wife Shirleay of Lawton and Gary Bogges and his wife Barbara of Cheyenne, 5 grandchildren, 3 great granddaughters, 1 great grandson, 2 brothers, James Evans of Fairview, Missouri, Glen Evans of Amarillo, Texas, a special cousin, Johnny Moorhead of Elk City and many other relatives and friends. The family request memorials be made to Trinity Hospice or the Charity of their choice. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 12-Oct-2006