Charles Carter Boggs

Charles Carter Boggs M.D. passed away January 27, 2025, at the age of 88 in Portland, Oregon. His last day was spent listening to music and surrounded by family. He is survived by five children as well as eight grandchildren, one great-grandchild, two nephews, many friends, and his special lady friend, Glenda French. His beloved parents, Stanley and Edith (Sinnett) Boggs; sister, Cicely Nicolai (Boggs); first wife, Terri Boggs (Quiggle); and second wife, Marcia Boggs (Stacy) predeceased him.

Carter, as he was known, was born in Medford, Oregon, before moving to Portland in his youth. After attending Washington High School, he graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in Biology in 1960. He served as a United States Air Force Active Reservist, earning top marks in his Relay Radio Operations and Networks certification. Later, during Medical School, he interned at Hennepin County Hospital in Minneapolis. In the obstetrics rotation there, he delivered 13 babies in one night.

It was in Minneapolis that he met a lovely staff social worker, Terri Quiggle, who became his wife in the summer of 1966. Carter and Terri had two children, Drew and Amy, in Portland before moving to Bend in 1972.

In his career Dr. Boggs practiced for many years as a family and emergency doctor in Central and Eastern Oregon in private practice, in various hospital systems, and as part of the Indian Health Service. He served as Assistant Medical Investigator in Washington and Deschutes Counties as well as Aviation Medical Examiner and Aircraft Crash Investigator for the Federal Aviation Administration.

After separating from Terri, Carter pursued his interest in camping and the outdoors, technology and computers, and teaching in Central Oregon. He married Marcia Stacy in 1977. They welcomed a son, James, who joined Marcia’s two children, Christie and Jeff, in the family. He volunteered with the Rotary Club of Bend and later, Rotary clubs in Redmond and Portland.

Carter was an avid handball and tennis player, hiker, bicyclist, and slalom water skier with an admirable ability to dock start. His love of reading and history inspired his many trips abroad. As a private pilot, he enjoyed flying small airplanes and later he shared his knowledge as a docent at the Evergreen Aviation Museum.

He nurtured his early passion for music, enthusiastically singing and playing piano, guitar, and banjo for many decades. His original composition for ragtime piano, “The Boggs Boogie,” entertained multiple family generations and friends. He sang with the Willamette View Chorus.

A celebration of Carter Boggs’s life is scheduled for March 1, 2025 at 1:00 pm in the Blue Heron Auditorium at Willamette View in Portland. In lieu of flowers, donations to Rotary International or The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research would be fondly appreciated.