Donna Ruth Loveless Bogner

Bogner, Donna Ruth Loveless Mom’s spirit soared on August 12. Her nearly-ninety years of life was not so much defined by her various professions, memberships, dates and places… but by her heart and relationships. To compartmentalize Moms’ life is not possible. She would quickly say her first allegiance was always to Jesus Christ. That said, she was romanced and courted by the love of her life, every single day of their sixty five years together, beginning in her father’s drug store by the soda jerk, Clyde Phillip who left her six and a half years ago. After marrying Clyde (because he was “FUN”), her next twenty five years were spent with a no-nonsense upbringing of her three boys. She had to bury her two youngest, Tim and Chris, at much-too-young an age. Mom overcame being labeled the “slow” one of her siblings. Curiously, she taught and mentored an extraordinary number of young women and men by various “singles” and “single rebuilder” classes at Wichita First Free. She was active in, and committed to, Bible Study Fellowship International and had large amounts of the New Testament committed to memory. It’s a cruel irony that her memory was taken by vascular dementia from which she suffered greatly. In the end, her memory was shot….her heart was not. Few, if any, will ever know the full measure of her anonymous generosity. She took enormous pride in the affection and devotion of her daughter and son, Victoria and Phillip, who were so privileged to manage every detail of her care each day. She lived six years at Signature Pointe on the Lake, where her patio was her life and she was mesmerized by the sky, clouds and many shades of green. In recent times she was extraordinarily blessed by the friends and staff of The Tradition-Prestonwood. Her family is so grateful to the people that were willing to overlook her memory challenges and engage her as a friend. Mom treasured her grandchildren Allison and Ben Husmann of Chicago, Beauen Bogner of Lorena, Texas, Andy and Laurel Bogner of Hutchinson, Kansas, and Amy Bogner of Burrton, Kansas, as well as Julie Bogner, her daughter-in-love, and her grand-greats, Dirk, Emaline, Soren and Ingrid. Consider that Donna, who, at nearly 75 years of age, left the five-square-mile-radius of her entire life in Wichita to embrace her final fifteen years as a Dallas-ite with great wonder, optimism, and anticipation, fearlessly taking both Hillcrest and Central Expressway by storm in her old white El Dorado. At five feet, she propped herself up on a pillow and put the pedal-to-the-metal. If she was running late to her church, Park Cities Baptist, look out!! In every dimension of her life, she had no room for pessimism or self-pity. She was always! happy and taught us to hug and laugh…but more importantly….she lived out what for her was a deep, for-real, kind of faith. Bye for now, Mom. Signed: your (almost) dearest friends and proud son and daughter, Phillip and Victoria. Private family graveside services held in Wichita.