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Note: Roy Ward Bogard Jr.: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) - September 27, 1992 Deceased Name: Roy Ward Bogard Jr. FORT WORTH - Roy Ward Bogard Jr., a restoration architect, died Friday at a Fort Worth hospital. He was 52.
Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran Church. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 5 to 8 tonight at Shannon North Funeral Chapel.
Mr. Bogard was born in Tarrant County and was a 1958 graduate of Carter-Riverside High School.
He received his bachelor of architecture degree from Texas Technological College in Lubbock in 1963. He worked for Maples-Jones Associates of Fort Worth, moved to Houston and returned to Fort Worth in 1965 as project manager for Kneer and Hamm Associates.
In 1968, he opened his own firm in west Fort Worth and later moved to the Stockyards.
As a restoration architect, Mr. Bogard worked on numerous historical renovations, including the Tarrant County Courthouse in 1963 and the W.T. Waggoner Building, the Sinclair Building, the Loftin Building, Commodore Savings, the Magnolia and Southlake projects and St. John's Episcopal Church.
He had recently worked on the Saint Teresa project to assist children with AIDS, and Embers West, which provides low-income housing to self-sufficient people who are mentally retarded.
His work has been recognized in national publications and he was awarded the Citation for Distinguished Service in Recognition of Achievement of State Goals in the Field of Historic Preservation from the Texas Historical Commission and the 1990 Pedestal Award for the Historic Preservation Council of Tarrant County.He was appointed to the Texas Preservation Trust Fund Advisory Board and was recognized by Texas Homes as one of the top preservation architects in Texas.He was a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Texas Society of Architects and served as president of the Fort Worth chapter. He was chairman of the Texas State Architects Disaster Action during the Wichita Falls tornado relief action.
He served as treasurer and director of the North Fort Worth Business Association and was founding director and secretary of the Stockyards District Association. He was on the executive committee of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce and was chairman of the North Area Council and a member of the Industrial Development Team.
The family suggests that memorials be made to the American Heart Asosciation, the North Fort Worth Historical Society or to the scholarship fund of the Fort Worth Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Survivors: Wife, Charlotte Elaine Bogard of Fort Worth; son, Travis Austin Bogard of Fort Worth; mother, Doris Shrewder Bogard of Fort Worth; and four brothers, Earl Bogard, Frank Bogard and Greg Bogard, all of Fort Worth, and Jim Bogard of San Antonio. FINAL EDITION
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