Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Boals, Porter M.  January 1970
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Argus Observer, Ontario, Oregon, January 12, 1970
Argus Observer
Ontario, Oregon
Jan. 12, 1970

Porter M. Boals
Porter Marion Boals, 89, a longtime resident of the Oregon Slope and Payette, 
died Saturday morning at a Payette nursing home. 
He was born June 10, 1880, in Dakota county, Neb. He grew up and attended 
schools and later attended Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. He married 
Alice Ruth Karst at Dakota county, Sept. 22, 1904. They farmed there until 1912 
when they moved to Payette. 
Three years later they moved to the Oregon Slope and operated an orchard until 
1945. Mr. Boals was secretary and treasurer of the Payette-Oregon Slope 
Irrigation District for 40 years. He and his wife were active in the Park Union 
Sunday School and he was a charter member of the Oregon Slope Grange. They sold 
their orchard in 1945 and moved to Payette where he had since resided. His wife 
died in 1958. He was a member of the united Methodist Church in Payette, a past 
member of the Payette Kiwanis Club and a member of the Payette Floral Club. 
Survivors include a son, Gordon P. Boals, Washington, D. C.; two daughters, 
Mrs. Gertrude R. Henry, Forks, Wash., and Mrs. Mary E. Martin, New York City, 
N. Y.; two sisters, Mrs. George Reed, Oakland, Calif., and Mrs. Elizabeth B. 
Swetzer, Sacramento, Calif.; seven grandchildren and trhee great-grandchildren. 
He was preceded in death by a sister and a brother.
Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the United Methodist Church in 
Payette by the Rev. Edward V. Hargreaves, pastor. Interment will be at 
Riverside in Payette under the direction of the Shaffer-Jensen Memory Chapel.


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