Joe Fogle

Joe Truett Fogle, 96, of Maumee, Ohio passed away peacefully on September 18, 2024, at St. Clare Commons in Perrysburg, Ohio. Truett was born on July 14, 1928 to Jesse Josiah Fogle and Mattie Fogle (White) in Bluff Springs, Texas. The son of a sharecropper, he worked from a very young age at many different jobs to make a living. He served in the Texas State Guard from 1944-1947. In 1950 he attended Wayland Baptist College in Plainview, TX while pastoring a small Spanish speaking Baptist church. In 1952 he met and married Esperanza (Hope) Gonzales. For the next 21 years he worked for the Southern Baptist Convention as a pastor to Spanish-speaking churches in Hereford, Alvin, and Angleton, TX. He was the Director of the Goodwill Center in Amarillo, TX for 5 years. While there he graduated with a BA from West Texas State University. In 1964 he was transferred to NW Ohio as Superintendent of Migrant Missions in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan to start Spanish Speaking churches. In 1971 he left the SBC and went to Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and graduated with his MSW several years later. He joined the American Baptist Convention and over the years he pastored or was an interim pastor of The First Baptist Church of Toledo, Cass Road Baptist Church and Ashland Avenue Baptist Church. He also pastored “La Iglesia del Buen Pastor” in Toledo. From 1973-1984 he taught Social Work at the University of Toledo. For many years he went on mission trips to Columbia, Mexico, Costa Rica and Ecuador with local churches.

In their retirement years Truett and Hope made several trips to Europe and Central America, including frequent travel in the United States. Truett loved the latest in gadgets and loved taking films of family trips. He was an avid reader, enjoyed music and movies, loved a good joke and savored ice cream more than anything.

Survivors include his wife, Hope Fogle; Children Virginia Darling (Clay) and David Fogle (Colleen); Grandchildren Adam Fogle (Amy), Ryan Fogle (Amy), Elizabeth Darling (Ryan); Great Grandchildren Eden Darling, Parker Fogle, Reid Fogle, Graham Fogle, Caroline Fogle, Clara Fogle, Collette Fogle and siblings Velma Shurtleff, Steve Fogle and Jan Downs along with many nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be held on Monday, September 23, 2024 from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm in Maison-Dardenne-Walker Funeral Home. A graveside service will follow at Riverside Cemetery at 2:00 pm.