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Note: See Notes Bob never married. Bob was an alcoholic. He drank up every cent his mother had and his brother Roy lost everything he had by going into partnership with Bob on a grocery store. Bob drank it up. Bobs' mother had several rent houses in North Fort Worth and had some money before her baby (Bob) drank it all up. Bob died penniless and in debt. He is buried next to his mother and father. Bob also succeeded in financially destroying his sister Sweetie Laura.
In 1978 , the District Clerk of Tarrant County died and J. W. Boorman, Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1, Place 1, was appointed to replace him. The precinct chairmen of Precinct 1 assembled to appoint a successor on the ballot for J. W. Boormans' vacated post of Justice of the Peace. Bob had been a precinct chairman for a number of years and had agreed to nominate Robert Earl Bogard for the position. Several other precinct chairmen had agreed to vote for Earl if Bob nominated him. However, the night of the meeting Bob did not show up, thereby killing Earls' chance of being appointed to the position. Later Earl and his father found that one of the other candidates had heard of Bobs' weakness to the bottle, and gave him a case of cheap whiskey to not show up for the meeting, it certainly worked for that candidate. When confronted with what he had done, Bob ordered Earl off of his property and refused to discuss what had happened. When Bob died, Ward refused to have anything to do with burying him. Ward told the other Neice and nephews that if the county would not pay to bury him as a pauper, he could rot in hell as far as he (Ward) was concerned. It was only after much urging by other family members, that Ward agreed to let them use the vacant plot next to H. F. and Jennie Bogard for Bobs' interment.
Memories of Bob: He would show up at my grandfathers (Roy W. and Mary Bogards') house on Christmas or his birthday, generally drunk to the point he would fall out of the chair or stumble through the house and become such a pest that his brother would have to order or throw him out of the house. He(Bob) would quite often show up at Roys' house unexpected with all kinds of sob stories, trying to get money for booze. Considering the fact that my grandmother was a charter member of Womens Christian Temperence Union, and she claimed to be a relative of Carrie Nation, you can imagine how this went over.
Sweetie often times would swear that Bob stole her pension check out of the mail and forged her name to cash it. However, she would never press charges against him.
It was well known that Bob was his mothers favorite and as such, went thru a small forturne keeping him in booze, until she died broke in Roys home.
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