On Sunday December 8th 2013 our world lost a great husband, father and friend, Bobby Joe Hogan 79, son of H. Grady Hogan and Mary Claire Hogan of Madison; survived by wife, Rachael, children Doug, Jimmy and Carolyn, grandchildren Sarah, Caleb, Brittany, Garrett, Jeremy, Joe and Logan; and great grandchildren Charlotte, Aliciana, Breyanna, Romeo, and Braven.
Bob (or Bobby or B.J., as he was known to many) was born and grew up in depression era Madison GA but the stories he told of his youth were anything but those of hardship. Although the family was not wealthy and he lost his father at a young age his memories of his youth were filled with good times and much mischief. All along the way though, through high school and in playing various sports from baseball to football to basketball he developed a great balance of compassion and leadership.
He started at a very young age working in various grocery concerns and turned this into his lifelong career; retiring as long time store manager from Colonial / Big Star. His great pride in management wasn't in the efficiency of the stores he ran or in his own advancement, but instead with the people he developed. From stocking clerks and cashiers who advanced within his stores, in skill and in personal maturity, to the many managers he trained and developed who he recommended for promotion to their own stores (only to face his next green management trainee himself)… this was his pride of work, the people.
His family life with wife Rachael was a great romance combined with family fun with the children, spent mostly in Thomaston GA. A great joy for the family was the summer vacation time, often to the gulf coast of Florida. Motor bikes and old cars and trucks – supervising the kids while they drove on old dirt roads was, too, a great pastime the he enjoyed. Though he and Rachael disagreed often on the motorcycle part he was determined to give his kids the kind of things he couldn't have when growing up and found great joy in it; involving as much a time to ride as an opportunity to teach maintenance, care and discipline in the process.
It's hard to put into words but if you met Bob Hogan you'd know that this short description only scratches the surface of the man. His sense of humor, discipline, compassion and independent spirit was infectious and you could not help but be a better person by having known him.
Although he rarely attended church Bob was a believer in God and he understood that life is just too complicated and special to have happened by accident. So we know he's with God, in great peace and smiling down on us all right now.
***As published by A.E.Carter Funeral Home website located at http://www.aecarterfuneralhome.com
Bob (or Bobby or B.J., as he was known to many) was born and grew up in depression era Madison GA but the stories he told of his youth were anything but those of hardship. Although the family was not wealthy and he lost his father at a young age his memories of his youth were filled with good times and much mischief. All along the way though, through high school and in playing various sports from baseball to football to basketball he developed a great balance of compassion and leadership.
He started at a very young age working in various grocery concerns and turned this into his lifelong career; retiring as long time store manager from Colonial / Big Star. His great pride in management wasn't in the efficiency of the stores he ran or in his own advancement, but instead with the people he developed. From stocking clerks and cashiers who advanced within his stores, in skill and in personal maturity, to the many managers he trained and developed who he recommended for promotion to their own stores (only to face his next green management trainee himself)… this was his pride of work, the people.
His family life with wife Rachael was a great romance combined with family fun with the children, spent mostly in Thomaston GA. A great joy for the family was the summer vacation time, often to the gulf coast of Florida. Motor bikes and old cars and trucks – supervising the kids while they drove on old dirt roads was, too, a great pastime the he enjoyed. Though he and Rachael disagreed often on the motorcycle part he was determined to give his kids the kind of things he couldn't have when growing up and found great joy in it; involving as much a time to ride as an opportunity to teach maintenance, care and discipline in the process.
It's hard to put into words but if you met Bob Hogan you'd know that this short description only scratches the surface of the man. His sense of humor, discipline, compassion and independent spirit was infectious and you could not help but be a better person by having known him.
Although he rarely attended church Bob was a believer in God and he understood that life is just too complicated and special to have happened by accident. So we know he's with God, in great peace and smiling down on us all right now.
***As published by A.E.Carter Funeral Home website located at http://www.aecarterfuneralhome.com
On Sunday December 8th 2013 our world lost a great husband, father and friend, Bobby Joe Hogan 79, son of H. Grady Hogan and Mary Claire Hogan of Madison; survived by wife, Rachael, children Doug, Jimmy and Carolyn, grandchildren Sarah, Caleb, Brittany, Garrett, Jeremy, Joe and Logan; and great grandchildren Charlotte, Aliciana, Breyanna, Romeo, and Braven.
Bob (or Bobby or B.J., as he was known to many) was born and grew up in depression era Madison GA but the stories he told of his youth were anything but those of hardship. Although the family was not wealthy and he lost his father at a young age his memories of his youth were filled with good times and much mischief. All along the way though, through high school and in playing various sports from baseball to football to basketball he developed a great balance of compassion and leadership.
He started at a very young age working in various grocery concerns and turned this into his lifelong career; retiring as long time store manager from Colonial / Big Star. His great pride in management wasn't in the efficiency of the stores he ran or in his own advancement, but instead with the people he developed. From stocking clerks and cashiers who advanced within his stores, in skill and in personal maturity, to the many managers he trained and developed who he recommended for promotion to their own stores (only to face his next green management trainee himself)… this was his pride of work, the people.
His family life with wife Rachael was a great romance combined with family fun with the children, spent mostly in Thomaston GA. A great joy for the family was the summer vacation time, often to the gulf coast of Florida. Motor bikes and old cars and trucks – supervising the kids while they drove on old dirt roads was, too, a great pastime the he enjoyed. Though he and Rachael disagreed often on the motorcycle part he was determined to give his kids the kind of things he couldn't have when growing up and found great joy in it; involving as much a time to ride as an opportunity to teach maintenance, care and discipline in the process.
It's hard to put into words but if you met Bob Hogan you'd know that this short description only scratches the surface of the man. His sense of humor, discipline, compassion and independent spirit was infectious and you could not help but be a better person by having known him.
Although he rarely attended church Bob was a believer in God and he understood that life is just too complicated and special to have happened by accident. So we know he's with God, in great peace and smiling down on us all right now.
***As published by A.E.Carter Funeral Home website located at http://www.aecarterfuneralhome.com
Bob (or Bobby or B.J., as he was known to many) was born and grew up in depression era Madison GA but the stories he told of his youth were anything but those of hardship. Although the family was not wealthy and he lost his father at a young age his memories of his youth were filled with good times and much mischief. All along the way though, through high school and in playing various sports from baseball to football to basketball he developed a great balance of compassion and leadership.
He started at a very young age working in various grocery concerns and turned this into his lifelong career; retiring as long time store manager from Colonial / Big Star. His great pride in management wasn't in the efficiency of the stores he ran or in his own advancement, but instead with the people he developed. From stocking clerks and cashiers who advanced within his stores, in skill and in personal maturity, to the many managers he trained and developed who he recommended for promotion to their own stores (only to face his next green management trainee himself)… this was his pride of work, the people.
His family life with wife Rachael was a great romance combined with family fun with the children, spent mostly in Thomaston GA. A great joy for the family was the summer vacation time, often to the gulf coast of Florida. Motor bikes and old cars and trucks – supervising the kids while they drove on old dirt roads was, too, a great pastime the he enjoyed. Though he and Rachael disagreed often on the motorcycle part he was determined to give his kids the kind of things he couldn't have when growing up and found great joy in it; involving as much a time to ride as an opportunity to teach maintenance, care and discipline in the process.
It's hard to put into words but if you met Bob Hogan you'd know that this short description only scratches the surface of the man. His sense of humor, discipline, compassion and independent spirit was infectious and you could not help but be a better person by having known him.
Although he rarely attended church Bob was a believer in God and he understood that life is just too complicated and special to have happened by accident. So we know he's with God, in great peace and smiling down on us all right now.
***As published by A.E.Carter Funeral Home website located at http://www.aecarterfuneralhome.com
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