Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....BOGGS, L. WALKER December 1, 1997 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gina Brown http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006026 December 21, 2008, 10:10 pm News Star World - December 3, 1997 L. WALKER BOGGS Mulhearn Funeral Home Sterlington Road Monroe, LA. Memorial services for L. Walker Boggs, 82, prominent Monroe businessman who died Monday December 1, 1997 on his 82nd birthday, were held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Pine Grove Church, Loop Road, Monroe with Revs. Kevin Finley and Dale Walker officiating. Burial was in the Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Colorado with full Masonic services at the grave. A native of Pemberton, Virginia he had been a resident of Monroe since 1960. He was retired owner operator of the J. O. "Red" Willett Pipeling Stringing Corp. He attended Colorado College and was the chief dispatcher of Colorado Interstate Gas Co. He was a veteran of WWII serving as a Lt. Commander in the U.S. Navy Air Corps and was the second person in U. S.history to receive a naval instrument rating. He owned the Spann Flying Service in Colorado Springs and was the former president of the Lone Star Air Cargo Co, Dallas, TX. He served a president of the Mobil Consigning Corp. in Farmington, NM. He served as president of Bayou DeSiard Country Club in 1965. He was a member of Pine Grove Church. He was a member of El Paso Masonic Lodge #13, Colorado Springs. He was a 33rd degree mason and a member of the Scottish Rite, Sante Fe, NM. He served as consultant to Ford Bacon and Davis, pipeline section and was project manager for the pipeline division of Sedcoest internation, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. He is survived by his wife, Ruth Elizabeth Boggs, Monroe; his daughters, Evelyn Crittenden, Rosewell, NM; Judith Ann Behney and her husband Dr. Charles A Behney, Bisbee, AZ; Susan Karon Leiker and her husband Mark of Colorado Springs; his son, Drexell Walker Boggs, and wife Caroline, Rayville; his grandchildren, Jennifer Jenkins Bilbrey, and her husband Nathan, Lubbock, TX; Eugene Walker Jenkins, Amarillo, TX; Hunter Boggs, Walker Boggs, and Thomas Boggs, Rayville; 1 brother, Parker Boggs, Rapid City, South Dakota. In lieu of flowers the family requests memorials to your favorite church or charity. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/ouachita/obits/b/boggs2594gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb