OBIT: Howard R. BOOSE, Jr., 2001, formerly of Somerset County, PA
  
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  BOOSE
  
    Howard R. Boose Jr., 87, Arlington, Va., formerly of Somerset
  passed away April 13, 2001 at his home.  He was the son of the late
  Howard R. and Lottie (Good) Boose who lived in Somerset.  He was a
  1931 graduate of Somerset High School as was his wife of 58 years,
  Peggy Specht Boose who died in 1992.  Survivors include two sons,
  Howard III of Dayton, Ohio, and R. Andrew Boose of Sneden's Landing,
  N.Y.; a daughter, Peggy Boose Burke of Arlington, Va.; a
  sister-in-law Mrs. Robert I. Boose of Somerset, and brother-in-law
  Dr. George Gourley of Somerset, nine grandchildren and six
  great-grandchildren.  Howard grew up in Somerset and remained in the
  area until he entered the Army just prior to World War II.  He
  returned briefly after the war and founded Boose and Hawke Concrete
  Products.  In 1946 he decided to return to the Army.  He was a
  retired Army colonel and former civilian intelligence officer and an
  Arlington real estate agent.  he had maintained a home in Arlington
  since the 1950s.  Col. Boose attended both Gettysburg College in his
  native Pennsylvania, and Ohio State University.  He served in the
  Civilian Conservation Corps before receiving and Army commission
  about 1940.  During World War II, he served in this country with
  armored units.  He later spent much of his uniformed career in
  intelligence.  Fluent in Turkish, he also served for a time as an
  adviser to the Turkish army.  His last assignment, before retiring
  from active duty in 1961, was in a Pentagon intelligence post.  He
  served with Army intelligence in a civilian capacity from 1961 to
  1976, then became an Arlington real estate agent.  He worked for the
  Arlington realty firms of Better Homes and George Mason Green before
  founding his own firm, Neighborhood Realty, which he operated in the
  1980s before retiring altogether.  Col. Boose was a 40-year member of
  St. Ann's Catholic Church in Arlington, where he had served as a
  Eucharistic minister.  He was a past president of the Arlington
  Optimist Club.
  
  Daily American, May 23, 2001
  
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