The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., May 6, 1982, page 8
THELMA BOOHER
Thelma Isoline Booher, a long-time resident of Glenwood,
died April 27 in Goldendale at the age of 76.
Mrs. Booher was born April 23, 1906, in Moscow, Idaho,
to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cox. She moved to Glenwood in 1926. A homemaker, Mrs.
Booher was also a silver star member of Glenwood Grange 94.
She is survived by her husband, Albert; her children,
Isoline Sprague, Glenwood, Ruth Warner, Vancouver, Floyd Booher, LaCenter,
Marie Vaughn, Monterey, Calif., and Jackie Templeton, Corvallis, Ore.; three
sisters, Vera Taylor, Bend, Ore., Amy Lyman, Seattle, and Dorothy Liebel,
Seattle; 14 grandchildren; and numerous great grandchildren.
Services for Mrs. Booher were held
Friday at 2 p.m. at Pioneer Church in Glenwood with Rev. Ken Wutzke officiating.
Interment was at the Mt. Adams Cemetery in Glenwood.
The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., May 13, 1982, page 3
BOOHER
Thelma Isoline Booher, 76, died April 27 at Klickitat
Valley Hospital in Goldendale. She was born April 23, 1906 to Ernest and
Inez Gilbreth Cox at Moscow, Idaho. She was one of twin daughters in a family
of eleven children. She and her sister Zelma celebrated their 70th birthday
together shortly before Zelma's death.
Mrs. Booher was baptised in the Christian faith when
she was young. She spent her girlhood in Idaho. She moved with her parents
to Washington in 1923. In 1923 she met Albert Booher. They were married April
17, 1924 at Donald, Wash., near Wapaot. One of the Booher's most happy occasions
was the celebration of the golden wedding in 1974.
The Boohers have lived almost continiously in Glenwood
since 1926 where they reared their family of five children.
Survivors include her husband Albert; one son, Floyd
of LaCenter and four daughters, Isoline Sprague of Glenwood, Ruth Warner
of Vancouver, Marie Vaughn, Monterey, Calif. and Jackie Templeton, Corvallis,
Ore.; three sisters, Vera Taylor of Bend, Ore., Amy Lyman and Dorothy Liebel,
both of Seattle; many nieces and nephews; 17 grandchildren and 24
great-grandchildren.
Suneral services were conducted Friday, April 30 at 2
p.m. at the Presbyterian Church at Glenwood by Gardners Funeral Home. Interment
was at the Mt. Adams Cemetery in Glenwood. Pallbearers were he grandsons,
Gary Booher, Randy Sprague, Larry Sprague, Gary Sprague, Jerry Scott and
Norman Hays. Honorary pallbearers were John Liebel, Charlie Gangle, Frank
Gangle, Earl Barnes and ben Turner. In lieu of flowers, the family requested
a memorial to the Glenwood E.M.T. team.
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