Porter Marion Boals

Argus Observer (Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon)
January 12, 1970

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 three 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.