Harley Grant Scoggins

Harley Grant Scoggins, loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, and friend, passed away Thursday April 16, 2015 at the age of 78.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in Biggers Funeral Chapel. Interment will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Bogata Cemetery in Bogata. Visitation will be from 2-4 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Harley Scoggins was born November 24, 1936, in Red River County, Texas, the son of Homer and Mary (Ferguson) Scoggins. He graduated from Cunningham High School in 1954 and attended Paris Junior College from 1954 to 1956.

He was married to Mrs. Brenda “Ms. B” Scoggins for 29 years and they were members of First Baptist Church of Lakeside.

Harley worked in the foundry industry from 1956 to 1970 and in the foundry supply industry from 1970 to 2001. He established Foundry Supply, Inc. in 1974. In 1985 he sold his stock to Porter Warner Ind. and remained employed with the same company until his retirement, November 24, 2001. Harley served as chairman, vice chairman, secretary, treasurer, and three years as director of the American Foundry Society. In 1998 he was awarded the AFS Texas Chapter Memorial Award, and in 2003 he was given the Gordon Killman AFS Award for his many years of dedicated service to the foundry industry. Harley was a past member of the West Side Rotary Club in Fort Worth and has been a member of the Alexander C. Garrett Masonic Lodge #1216 since 1959. He is a past director and past trustee of The Foundry Education Foundation in Des Plaines, Illinois.

Harley was instrumental in getting Southwest Texas State University set up as a FEF approved school for teaching the foundry trade. Since 1999, he has served as executive director of the Texas Cast Metals Association. He also served as secretary/treasurer of that association. In addition, Harley served as business manager for the American Foundry Society – Texas Chapter. He spent many hours raising funds for the Texas Chapter of the American Foundry Society and was proud of the chapter’s accomplishments.

Harley has been a member of Eagle Mountain Country Club for many years and has spent many hours playing golf there with his many friends. Harley spent many hours at his farm in Red River County and enjoyed the hunting and fishing. He was an avid sportsman and spent many years hunting and fishing in South Texas and Colorado. Harley loved to travel and he has visited fourteen different countries and forty-nine of the United States, missing only Hawaii.

Harley was preceded in death by his wife, Brenda “Ms. B”, his parents, Homer and Mary Scoggins, and brother, Dean Scoggins.

He is survived by his sister, Billie Mac Lindsey; daughters, Darlene Crites, Sherry Norton and Cindy Scoggins; son, Harley Mac Scoggins; two stepchildren, Erin Hipps and Chuck Hooper 13 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.