Pearl Eslick Bogard, 87

A homemaker and poet and a member of the Methodist Church, she is survived by three sons and daughters-in-law, Bobby and Brenda Bogard of Woodbury, Billy and Shae Bogard of Cochran, Ga., and John and Tammy Bogard of Morrison.; daughter and son-in-law, Martha and Mike Humphrey of Centertown; brother and sister-in-law, Roy and Liza Eslick of Franklin; nine grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren also survive. She was preceded in death by her parents, Arlie Palow Eslick and Mary Walker Warren, her stepfather, George Warren, her husband, James F. Bogard and her son, Leroy Bogard.

Funeral services will be held in the Chapel of Woodbury Funeral Home at 10 a.m. today with Danny Freeman officiating. Interment will follow at Ivy Bluff Cemetery.

Woodbury Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.