Jim Wesley Booher |
| Posted 2018-04-26 by mhenderson |
| Today's News-Herald, Lake Havasu City, AZ - Posted on April 22, 2018 - Jim Wesley Booher, passed April 16, 2018. He was born September 18, 1943 at Hamlet, NC to James W. and Vivienne Lake Booher Sr. He lived in Oregon, Washington, Lake Havasu City, AZ and Hurricane, UT. Survived by his beloved wife Beth; daughters, Jerilyn K. Ingalls of Longview, WA and Jennifer A. Booher of Kelso, WA; five grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren; mother, Vivienne L. Booher of Lake Havasu City, AZ; sister, Jill L. Spangler of Lake Havasu City, AZ. Jim attended school in Oregon, graduating from Roseburg High School in 1961 as a member of the National Honor Society. He graduated from Oregon State University in 1966 with two BS degrees: Forest Engineering and Forest Management. He received the Hill Family Foundation Scholarship Award, the Crown Zellerbach Scholarship, the Max D. Tucker Scholarship Award and the Paul Dunn Outstanding Senior Award at OSU. He graduated first in his class and was a member of the Phi Kappa Phi all-school honorary fraternity and Xi Sigma Pi forestry honorary fraternity. Jim worked for the U.S. Forest Service in Cave Junction, OR and the Bureau of Land Management in Roseburg, OR during summers while attending OSU. He was a Lab Instructor at OSU for tree and shrub identification, forest engineering and log scaling/timber cruising during his last two academic years. He worked for Weyerhaeuser Company at Aberdeen, WA as a Field Engineering Lead Man, then Longview in 1968 as Assistant Logging Contract Supervisor, transferred to Molalla, OR in 1970 as District Engineer-Construction Foreman and returned to Longview in 1972 serving as Camp Kalama Maintenance Foreman and in a number of engineering field and supervisory capacities from 1976 until his retirement in June 1999. Jim's hobbies include digital photography and computer photo manipulation, hiking, reading historical books and novels, putting together jigsaw puzzles and solving crossword puzzles. He loved natural and man-made beauty in all its diverse forms. Jim married his loved wife Beth in 2016 and she has been a much-loved and comforting companion during the last years of his life. Arrangements thru Spilsbury Mortuary, (435) 673-2454. Jim's online guestbook is at www.spilsburymortuary.com. |
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