Sue Bogart of Palm Harbor, Fla., a longtime summer resident of East Hampton, died at home in Florida on Nov. 28. She was 87 and had been in declining health.
Ms. Bogart spent summers in East Hampton for more than 50 years, living here year round for a time after she retired from a long career in elementary education. She eventually made Florida her permanent home.
In her spare time she enjoyed many things, her family said, among them bicycling, gardening, reading, swimming, and listening to classical music. She almost never missed a concert of the Florida Orchestra.
Ms. Bogart was born in Morris, Ill., on Sept. 21, 1934, to Ellsworth Bogart and the former Jewel Garrison. Her father was in the Army during World War II, and she lived until the age of 12 all over the Midwest, depending on where he was stationed. In 1946, the family lived for about a year in Seoul, South Korea, after which they settled in the Chicago area.
Ms. Bogart started college at Principia College in Elsah, Ill., and finished her undergraduate degree at Northwestern University, after which she earned an M.A. at Northern Illinois University. In the late ‘50s, she moved to New York City and lived there and in East Orange, N.J., and East Hampton for the rest of her life.
Her entire professional career was devoted to teaching children. “She inspired students in Illinois, the state of her birth; New York, and, for the last 23 years of her career, East Orange, N.J., an experience she regarded as the most enriching of her professional life,” her family wrote.
Her sister, Ann Close of St. Charles, Ill., survives her, as do two nieces, Jane Edmonds of Batavia, Ill., and Beth Kelsey of Carol Stream, Ill. She also leaves two nephews, Daniel Novak of Chicago and Thomas Novak of Boston.
Ms. Bogart was cremated. There will be a celebration of her life at 3:30 p.m. at Curlew Hills Memory Gardens in Palm Harbor on Dec. 18; the family is planning a similar event next spring in East Hampton.
Memorial donations may be directed to the United Negro College Fund (uncf.org), the Bosand Scholarship Fund at Bethune-Cookson University in Daytona, Fla. (cookman.edu), or the Florida Orchestra (floridaorchestra.org)
