Susan Marie Mogan, age 63, passed away at her residence in Nashville on January 9, 2020. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia at Grady Hospital on July 10, 1956, but was a life-long Nashvillian. She is preceded in death by her father, Thomas Mogan, Sr., MD, and her mother, Patricia O’Mara Hightower, and by her brother Thomas Mogan, Jr. She is survived by her husband Paul W. Ragan, MD, and her daughters Chelsea Eason Stabler (Garret), Shannon Eason Cordell (Phillip) and Valerie Eason Rachal (Eddie), and stepdaughter Daniela Ragan, and the grandchildren to whom she was devoted and who she adored, Callan, Holland (Daisy), Eason, Rilo Rose, with baby boy Rachal on the way. She is survived by her sisters Paddy and Melissa Mogan, her brothers Kevin and Joseph (Joey) Mogan, sister-in-law Julie Mogan Todd (Dan) and countless nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Susan never met a stranger and touched many lives through her various activities including yoga, body-pump at the YMCA, 1974 Girls Night Out Group, and most recently her 38th Avenue Group. She was very active in her grandchildren’s lives, attending soccer games, school events, and weekly babysitting.
Susan graduated from St. Bernard Academy in 1974, and from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1978) majoring in English. After giving birth to her three beautiful daughters, whom she raised, and as a self-made woman, she obtained a Nursing Degree from Aquinas College (ASN). She worked on 9 North, Trauma, and the MICU at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Susan was the research coordinator for Art Wheeler, MD in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, a position she held until her untimely illness in March 2019. During this time, with her father’s encouragement, she obtained a Master’s Degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and obtained her nurse practitioner’s license.
Visitation with the family will be on Sunday, January 12, 2020 from 4-7 p.m. at Marshall-Donnelly-Combs Funeral Home, 201 25th Avenue North, Nashville. Funeral Services will be on Monday, January 13 at 10 a.m. at the Cathedral of the Incarnation, 2015 West End Avenue, with reception to follow. Many thanks to her caretaker Ruby Smith. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Southeastern Brain Tumor Foundation, www.sbtf.org. Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at Marshall-Donnelly-Combs site.
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