Mary Joan Bogner

Fully supported by the sacraments of the Catholic Church and her loving family, Joan Bogner passed on December 29, 2024, fittingly the Feast Day of the Most Holy Family. Mary Joan was born to Leonard and Agnes (Miller) Walliser on April 6, 1928, in Attica, Ohio where she spent the first 44 years of her life. She married Paul Bogner on September 4, 1954 and brought their four children into this world. In 1972 Paul and she moved their family to Westerville, Ohio where she resided at the time of her death. Together they set the example for keeping Jesus as the center of all things in and outside the home.

Joan gave freely of her love to all and spent her life giving of her time, talent and treasure to her family, church, friends, and missions. She enjoyed sewing and cooking and shared these talents completing hundreds of dresses for the little girls in South America and living the corporal works of mercy through preparing funeral meals for grieving families of her parish, Church of the Resurrection, New Albany. For years she reverently cleansed and ironed the linens for the church altar saying, "I am setting the table for our Lord".

Her three favorite words of advice were kindly, gently, softly. Her most treasured days were those surrounded by family. She was the rock to which they anchored.

She was preceded in death by her loving husband Paul; brothers and sister-in-law Richard (Arlene) and Harold; sisters and brother-in-law Doris (Charles) Kaple and Phyllis; brothers in law and sisters in law Earl (Helen), Helen (Delford) Ellis, Harold (Avis), Thomas (Bess), Robert, James (Nancy), Carl, Donald (Miriam) Bogner.

She will be missed dearly by her four children: Patricia (John) Massey, Rebecca (George) Rebitski, Steven and Laura; grandchildren Sarah (Julian) Perler, Rachel (Alex) Gaboric, Lauren and Kelsey Bogner, and Robert, Joanna and Paul Rebitski; great grandchildren Anderson, Grace and Claire Perler and Johnathan Gaboric; brothers and sisters in law Gerald (Ernestine) and Kenneth (Victoria) and sisters in law Betty Walliser, Peggy Bogner and Yvonne Bogner as well as many nieces, nephews and godchildren.

Friends may call from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Saturday, January 11, 2025, at the Church of the Resurrection, 6300 E. Dublin Granville Road, New Albany, OH. Where a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Followed by a graveside service at 3 p.m. in the Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery, 269 N Seneca Street , Attica, OH 44807. After the burial at the cemetery there will be cookies and coffee at Our Lady of Hope Church 320 Stump Pike Road, Attica Ohio

The mass will be livestreamed at the link below

https://www.youtube.com/@COTRNA1/streams

In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to:

Catholic Diocese of Columbus Vocations, Office Seminarian Support Fund, 197 East Gay Street, Columbus Ohio 43215 Attn: Office Seminarian Support Fund

Please Include on memo line for checks: Seminarian Support Fund in memory of Mary Joan Bogner

or

St. Jude Hospital - https://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR?px=8688266&fr_id=154020&pg=personal or in memory of Mary Joan Bogner St, Jude Children Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, Tennessee 38105