Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Boomer, Henry R. 1988
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Independent Enterprise 9-7-1988
Independent Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Wednesday, September 7, 1988
 
Henry R. Boomer
 
Henry R. Boomer, 68, Pocatello, formerly of Fruitland and Payette, died Aug. 
29, 1988, in Pocatello after an extended illness.  At his request no services 
were held.  His ashes will be interred by his family.
 
He was born March 3, 1920, in Fruitland, to Henry R. and Mae T. Boomer.  He 
graduated from Payette High School in 1938, and attended Iowa State 
University, interrupted by four and a half years of military services with the 
army combat engineers as a surveyor on the Alean Highway and airport 
construction in the Aleutian Islands.
 
Following completion of his military service, he was employed by Gillard 
Conover for two years, and then began work with Idaho Power Company, remaining 
until his retirement, Sept. 30, 1985,  serving as lineman, troubleman, line 
crew foreman, and later contractor inspector and underground coordinator in 
Payette, Parma, American Falls, and Pocatello.
 
He married Isabel Cuff in Saline, Mich., in 1948.
 
While serving as lineman in American Falls for 10 years, he served nine years 
on the school board.  He also served two terms as a state director of the 
Idaho Wildlife Federation.  He was a docent of the Idaho State University 
Museum of Natural History.
 
Survivors include his wife, Isabel of Pocatello; two sons, Henry R. Boomer, 
III of American Falls, and Bruce Boomer of Beaumont, Texas; a daughter, Mrs. 
Ken (Lois) Jenks of Salt Lake City; a brother, Dr. Robert B. Boomer of 
Onalaska, Wis.; two sisters, Mrs. Larry (Lois) Cohen of Portland, and Mrs. 
Rexford (Jean) Daubermire of Sorrento, Fla., and five grandsons.
 
In Lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to ISU Museum of Natural History or 
a favorite charity.

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