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In Memory

Junior Boehme - Class of 1944

Junior Boehme completed his mortal mission on April 2, 2014, just one day after his 88th birthday, having been born on April 1, 1926. He was welcomed to earth by his parents John Hugo Boehme and Gertrude Helena Marx Boehme, the 11 of 13 children. He was born in the family home in Geneva and remained living in that home for 87 years with the remaining year spent at the Bear Lake Skilled Nursing Facility due to his infirmities.

He was educated in Geneva Elementary and Montpelier High School. He also drove the school bus to Montpelier, filled with his fellow high school peers, attended school and then drove the student’s home at the end of the day.

When not in school, he was kept busy on the family farm working beside his father in the fields, with the livestock, at the Geneva Post Office, with the car dealership and hauling coal.

With WWII in progress dad displayed his patriotic spirit when he was drafted. However, he received a farm deferment due the Sullivan Act that had been passed which did not allow all the son’s in a family to serve at the same time.

After meeting on a blind date that bloomed into courting, he married Sarah Jane Olsen, on Oct. 19, 1946 in the Salt Lake Temple. They lived and worked on the family farm and were blessed with eight children. They were later divorced.

Junior was a dairyman and dry farmer by trade and was sought after by other farmers, ranchers, cattlemen and sheep men to assist them with their operations. He was well known for his hard work and among other talents he was a self-taught mechanic, heavy equipment operator being the first to own a combine and backhoe in the Thomas Fork Valley.

He loved his family; however work always took priority making it a special treat when dad took the time to take the family to Bear Lake, Allred’s Flat, or swimming at Etna after which there was always a Dutch oven meal. Each of his children loves to cook with Dutch Ovens and especially consuming the succulent meal that followed. The last 25 years, Junior determined there were only two special holidays in any year, the family camp out, generally over Labor Day weekend and the Family Christmas Party.

He was preceded in death by his parents, brothers Walter and Heber and sisters Elsie Hillier, Gertrude Barfuss, Erna Boehme, Lenora Hansen, Evelyn Poulsen, Lucy Sanders, Emily Boehme and Elaine White.

Junior is survived by his eight children, Karla (Sherwin) Mangum, Nick Boehme, Sheila (Clarence) Gummow, Roxann (Steve) Bush, Bryce (Rhonda) Boehme, Denise (Garth) Boehme, Robyn (Chad) Hulme and Todd (Angel) Boehme, 27 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren (one on the way), and one great-great-grandchild, sister Ruby Pedersen, brother Donald (Janet) Boehme, sister-in-law Lyle Boehme and brother-in-law Orvil White.

Services were held in the Geneva Ward on April 7, 2014