Alice Burton Hogan

North Augusta, S.C. -- Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Alice Burton Hogan, 99, who entered into rest after a brief illness on February 8, 2013 will be conducted Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the First Baptist Church of North Augusta. Rev. Jerry T. Matthews officiating. Interment in Westover Memorial Park. Mrs. Hogan was born on April 10, 1913, in Lincoln County, Georgia, to the late Grover Cleveland and Margaret Simpson Burton. Her brothers, Joe T. Burton and Harold F. Burton, and sister, Margaret E. Todd, predecease her. Mrs. Hogan lived her childhood years in Lincoln County, Augusta and Bath, Ga. and Anderson, S.C. After graduating from Tubman Girls School in 1932, she lived and worked in Lincolnton, Ga. She was married to J. Broadus Hogan from 1934 until his untimely death in 1957. Mrs. Hogan lived with her five children in Augusta, Ga from 1952 – 1974, where she was active in Bayvale Baptist Church, Woman’s Missionary Union, and local school PTAs. In 1974, Mrs. Hogan moved to N. Augusta, S.C. She retired from the School of Nursing at the Medical College of Georgia in 1979, where she had worked for twenty years as a secretary to the Nursing School faculty. She was a devoted member of First Baptist Church of North Augusta and the Hope Sunday School Class. She traveled and fellowshipped with the Sheffield Club. She sang with the Senior Adult Choir (Cream of the Crop). She volunteered with Meals on Wheels for several years. Mrs. Hogan filled her long life, through difficult times and good, with growing beautiful flowers, cooking delicious meals, reading and developing her curious mind, traveling to interesting places in the U.S., Canada and abroad, and, most of all, serving and caring for her family, friends and neighbors with humor, steadfast devotion and Christian love. Survivors include three sons, John Broadus Hogan and his wife Francisca, Clearwater, Grover Burton Hogan, Atlanta, and William Carey Hogan, Cumming, GA; two daughters, Margaret Ellen “Peggy” Skillman, Atlanta, and Martha Alice Hogan, North Augusta; three grandchildren, Louis and Rosie Hogan, Martha Alice and Peter Gerstel, Benjamin Douglas and Anna Skillman; six great-grandchildren, Stephanie and Michael Hogan, Skylar and Rowan Gerstel, Ruby and Stella Skillman. The family will receive friends at the funeral home this Sunday afternoon from 4 until 6. Honorary Pallbearers will be the Hope Sunday School Class, Sheffield Club and the Senior Adult Class. Active Pallbearers will be Stan Bryant, Michael Burton, Charles Goen, Richard Goolsby, Joe Todd and Stacy Washington. Memorials may be made to Alliance Hospice, 802 E. Martintown Road, Suite 200 North Augusta, S.C. 29841 or Meals on Wheels, Aiken Area Council on Aging, P.O. Box 3156, Aiken, S.C. 29802. Posey Funeral Directors of North Augusta in charge of arrangements (803-278-1181). Visit the registry online at www.poseyfuneraldirectors.com

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Alice Burton Hogan

April 10, 1913 - February 8, 2013