PEARLE MAE (MINEAR) BOGGS

Services: 10 a.m. March 11, New Hope Baptist Church, under the direction of Cantlon Otterness Funeral Home of Buffalo. Burial in New Hope Cemetery.

The Rev. Richard Prater officiated. Music was by Amy Blecher who sang, “Amazing Grace,” “In the Garden” and “I’ll Fly Away.”

Escorts were Sean Blecher, Shelby Blecher, Mike Zanzie and Mikey Horstman. Honorary escorts were her grandchildren.

Pearle Mae (Minear) Boggs, 91, was born Aug. 8, 1923, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the daughter of Eugene and Josephine (McCafferty) Minear. She died March 6, 2015, on the family farm at the home of her daughter and son-in-law.

She was reared and attended school in Ozark, Nixa and Conway.

She was united in marriage with Lennis Boggs, her only love of 37 years, on Aug. 26, 1940.

They moved to California, where she worked at a date factory during the war. They moved back to Missouri in 1945, where they bought a farm and raised their family.

She worked beside her husband, plowing, putting up silage, feeding hay, building their house, and running the dairy farm with lots of help from good neighbors.

She also worked at Ferrell’s Dry Goods in Buffalo, and the Dallas County Library.

She took pride in her work, partly because of the depression she lived through.

She finished her GED in 1977, and attended Clown School. She loved going to hospitals and schools and making the children smile.

She was a member of the Charity Christian Church following her baptism in the Niangua River, and later the Louisburg Christian Church where she was a Sunday school teacher.

She loved talking to and spending time with  friends and family, especially her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She enjoyed cooking, sewing, gardening, crocheting, traveling and had a great love of reading and teaching children to read.

Even through her pain she gave her family a smile, a wink or a nod that she was pleased and thankful for the love and care God had sent her. She always thought of others before herself. With God’s guidance her family was able to carry out her wishes to pass away at home. She also did the same for her parents of 96 and 97 years of age.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Lennis; her parents; three brothers: Thomas, Richard and Jim Minear; and one sister, Peggy Ryan.

Survivors include her children: Butch and wife, Louise Boggs, Lebanon, Rick and wife, Mindy Boggs, Springfield, Linda and husband, Larry Blecher, Buffalo, and Lynn Boggs, Dallas, Texas; nine grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews; and friends both new and old, who will all truly miss her.

A LETTER FROM HEAVEN

(Where I Now Live)

About the place where I now live, There is so much I have to tell.

It is calm and peaceful here, God reigns supreme and is well.

I am with loved ones and with friends, Who settled here some time ago.

And all the joys I with them share, I’m sure you will be glad to know.

We have no racial problems here, No one is lonely or alone.

And how I wish that you could see, The stately mansion that I own.

There is no sickness, grief or death, To mar the beauty of this place.

And lights that are brighter than the sun, Shine from the Blessed Masters Face.

So do not grieve for me my dears, But rather when you kneel to pray,

Thank God for my arrival home, Where free from pain I am today.

Keep Christmas and the Birthdays too, That to us all were very dear,

With love to keep your memories green, As I shall always keep them here.

The time has come for me to close, And there isn’t much more I can say,

Except, don’t think of me as gone, I’M ONLY A PRAYER AWAY.

(Paid memorial provided by family and friends)