Robert Arnold Boggs
On May 18, 1936 the summer heat broke under a sharp thunderstorm and Arnold and Esther Leanne McQuay, Boggs welcomed Robert Arnold Boggs into the world.
He was born on the country home place on Denver Road, Pike County Ohio.
Growing up with two sisters Geraldine and Sandra and two brothers Wally and Terry, he was the big brother of the family and also the last surviving member.
Robert (Bob) always had a love of the farm and animals.
He was a grand-nephew of the famous Lafe Boggs of Sandy Hook, Kentucky.
This Kentucky heritage passed down the agricultural wisdom to raise hogs, cattle, donkeys, horses and dogs.
Yet the old family famous whiskey recipe went to the heavens with Grandpa Arnold and his best friend Newt Stevens.
His first job at 15 was as an assistant forester at Scioto Trails where his timeless wisdom to never take the curves on a gravel road going 45 in a 36 Ford had its genesis that you just end up upside down in the ditch with the family car.
The training from his forestry job lead to Wally and dad being contracted to manage the largest sassafras tree in the state of Ohio when it was felled by a storm, a fact that he was proud to relate to his family over the years.
Robert attended Huntington High School where it is also worth noting in his graduation year of 1954 that he was a member of a team that competed for state honors with a diorama detailing modern paper production in the nifty fifties.
Robert after getting in trouble in his high school typing class became the favorite office assistant for their much beloved Superintendent Miss Clara Kenny.
Circa 1952-54 in the summers and after graduating from high school, Robert started construction work on the new Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion plant in Piketon Ohio. Now the secret can finally be told, under the concrete pad of the X-330 they may find numerous hard hats where the crew threw them in the cement on the final pour.
In 1958 Robert took a slight curve from the Ports GDP and joined the United States Air Force where he worked as a mechanic on the mighty B-52 strata fortress in the strategic air command under the famous General Curtis Lemay, working on the flight lines braving those frigid blizzard winds sweeping in off the South Dakotas prairies where he meet the talented singer Jo-Ann Jensen and conned the naïve girl into marriage that produced four children, Robin, Cristy (husband Frank Renner), Robert and Jon.

Robert came back to the GDP and worked several positions as foreman and supervisor for the new Goodyear Centrifuge plant and was a proud member of the Atomic Top Ten Club where he was able to ride in the famous Goodyear Blimp.
In 1972 he lost his beloved daughter Robin to a three year battle with Lupus she was his cowgirl, trick pony rider and she could teach all the kids how to gallop, trot and walk like a real horse.
In 1988 a vivacious red-head of German descendent enter his life and he married Mona Hummel which increased the McQuay-Boggs Scottish clan with two sons Steve Hummel (wife Rita), Mike Hummel (Amanda) and one daughter Cathy.
Robert retired from the plant and devoted his last years to truck driving, farming and teaching “master classes” in buying at auctions where he could be seen many times with his good friends “Smith” (Mike) and Gary or eating pie, always acknowledging Josa made the best custard pie in Ohio.
When his grandchildren were asked what kind of farm he had they, Erin Peoples (husband Brion) Morgan Boggs (Shawna), Madison Reedy, Ryan Renner (wife Katie) Adam Renner, Daniel Renner (wife Abby) Sarah Mueller (husband Lars) Steven Hummel, Amanda Bowdle (husband Chad) Mike Hummel Jr (wife Sabrina) and little Oliver Hummel

Roberts’s great grandchildren Brion, Braden, Aiden Peoples, Joseph Dixon, Lucas Mueller, Olivia, Diana and Carlton Hummel, Jacob, Jonah, Elijah Noah, Marleigh and Paxton Renner, may not have the blessing of his company it is noted that at least four have the famous Boggs ears.
Robert was always known as the patriarch of the family and loved his nieces and nephews Susy, Steve, Shelley and Scott Parks, Rob and Tony Elliot, Brenda Claytor, Kim and Todd Payne, Jacob and Adrian Boggs in his heart he also adopted the Lewis and Pauley boys, were Mikey and Michelle Lewis were always around to give a welcomed hand. He loved to see everyone fishing, hunting or the family favorite pastime “bailing hay”.
We would love to tale the story of the infamous “Cookie Episode” at his charismatic niece Susy’s house but we digress.
In lieu of flowers the family request a donation to one of the greatest gift that he gave his family, the love of books and request donations to Chillicothe and Ross County, Ohio Public Library or the Pike County Garnet A. Wilson Library.
Robert’s final Chapter ended on earth July 31st, 2015 and we ask family and friends to join us at Botkin Hornback Funeral Home calling hours Wednesday from 5:00 to 8:00, with an eulogy Thursday at 11:00 and then a celebration of his life afterwards at 115 Walnut, Waverly, Ohio.