Paul Edwin Boggs

Paul Edwin Boggs passed away on Saturday June 20, 2009, in Mt. Pleasant. Funeral Services will be held Monday June 22, 2009 at the First Presbyterian Church of Mt. Pleasant at 2:00 P.M. Visitation will be Sunday night from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. at the Curry-Welborn Funeral Home.
Boggs was born March 25, 1920 in Commerce, Texas, the son of Edgar Benton Boggs and Frances Pauline Pattillo Boggs.

He graduated from high school in Commerce and attended East Texas State Teacher’s College in Commerce. He graduated in 1939 with a B.S. degree from East Texas, and received his M.S. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1942.
He joined the Navy and proudly served his country during World War II as an officer on the U.S.S. Rebel, a minesweeper in the South Pacific where he participated in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
After the war while turning his ship into dry dock in Orange, Texas he met the love of his life, Barbara Helen LeFloor. It is reported that when he first met her he told his best friend that was the girl he was going to marry. Eventually they married January 25, 1947 and started their life together in Dallas, Texas. This union produced a daughter, Lenice Boggs Smithwick, and a son, Donald Bryan Boggs.
Boggs began working as an auditor for Braniff Airlines. He studied for and passed his entire C.P.A. exam the first try. He began working for Intercontinental Manufacturing Co. in Garland, Texas as head of the accounting department. He eventually became Treasurer of the company and then later served as President. Paul was a very active member of the National Association of Accountants serving as president of the Texas chapter. Paul was very proud to be a 32nd degree mason, a Shriner, and a member of the Lions Club for over 20 years.
The Boggs entered the next stage of their lives in 1972 when they moved to Mount Pleasant, Texas. He started a private C.P.A. business while Barbara opened an interior decorating business. While living in Mount Pleasant Paul served as president of the Chamber of Commerce, County Auditor of Titus County and as elder and Treasurer of the First Presbyterian Church of Mount Pleasant.
In 1991 they moved to Salado for retirement until Barbara was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. They were active members of the First United Methodist Church of Salado. He was the sole caregiver of Barbara and devoted his life to her care until she died in Nov. 2004. He remained in Salado for another year until he moved back to Mount Pleasant to live with his son, Don. He was a resident of the Pleasant Springs Nursing Facility of Mount Pleasant at the time of his death.
Boggs was preceded in death by his parents, one brother, Don Wendell Boggs, his wife, Barbara Boggs, and one grandson, Richard Boggs. He is survived by a daughter, Lenice Boggs Smithwick and husband, Jack of Florence; a son, Donald B. Boggs and wife, Annaleisa of Mount Pleasant, Texas; granddaughters Jaime Smithwick Cowan and husband, David, of Round Rock, Texas, and Sarah Boggs of Miami, Florida; grandsons Bryan Boggs of Arlington, Texas and Joseph Boggs and wife Sheila of Altus, Oklahoma; and great-grandchildren Olivia and Reece Cowan of Round Rock, Texas.