Howard Boese August 1, 1917 - November 1, 2003

      Howard Boese, 86, of Wayland and formerly of Lockridge, died Saturday, Nov. 1, 2003 at the Parkview Home in Wayland.

      Funeral services will be held Thursday, Nov. 6 at 10:30 a.m. at the Lockridge Baptist Church with the Rev. Ed Newman officiating. Burial will be in the Lockridge Cemetery. Visitation will begin after noon Wednesday, Nov. 5 at the Olson-Powell Memorial Chapel in Mt. Pleasant, where the family will receive friends from 6:30 - 8 p.m. Memorials have been established to the Lockridge Baptist Church and to the Parkview Home of Wayland.

      Survivors include his wife Nellie; two daughters, Ida Mae and her husband Elbert Leopard of Fountain Inn, S.C., and Delores Taylor of Morristown, Tenn.; one brother, Dale Boese and his wife Marian of Selma; three sisters, Edith Nordyke and Frances Boese both of Fairfield and Dorothy Bartholomew of Washington. Also surviving are six grandchildren, two step-grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

      He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, Alfred and Arthur Boese and one sister, Mildred Boese.