Goodbye, Pop

Wayne Boggs (1950 - 2014)

Obituary

Wayne Lamar Boggs, born in Atlanta, GA in 1950 to John and Lucy Boggs, passed away on July 6, 2014, after an 18-month battle with leukemia. Moving with his parents to Richardson in 1965, Wayne graduated from Richardson High School in 1968 and the University of North Texas in 1972. Wayne was a modern-day Renaissance man. He worked for 35 years as a cable splicer for Southwestern Bell and later at AT&T, but his true passions lay in the arts. He was constantly full of creative energy, whether helping his daughters with school projects, sculpting gargoyles and zombies, or illustrating his daughter's novel and making drawings for his grandchildren in pen and ink. He was also a talented musician and a member of Virgin Insanity, a folk-rock band formed in the 1970s with friends. Virgin Insanity recorded one album which enjoyed a resurgence of success recently when bootleg copies were discovered by Japanese fans. Wayne will be missed by all who knew him, especially Wendy Boggs, his wife of 40 years, his two children, Lacy Boggs-Renner and Emily Richardson, their husbands, and his beloved grandchildren Grey Allen Richardson, Holden John Richardson, and Devyn Fae Boggs-Renner. In lieu of flowers, please consider joining the bone marrow registry at BeTheMatch.org. An anonymous bone marrow donor gave us six additional months with Wayne, and we will be forever grateful. Special thanks to the amazing people at Baylor Dallas, Texas Oncology and the UT Southwestern bone marrow clinical trial group, our outstanding extended professional family. You made all the difference to him.