Julius
John "Juke" Boes 1907-1986
The Breda News, May, 1986
Julius (Juke) Boes, 79, of rural Breda, died Tuesday,
May 6, at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll.
Mass of the Christian Burial will be celebrated at
2 p.m., Friday, May 9, at St. Bernard Church in Breda, with the
Rev. Thomas Munn as celebrant. Burial will be in the parish cemetery.
Mr. Boes is survived by his wife, Myrtle, Breda; five
daughters: Mrs. Raymond (Ardys Ann) Collins, Scranton; Mrs. Merle
(Wilma Jean) Pudenz, Lake View; Mrs. Mary Jo Thayer, Olathe, Kan.;
Mrs. Terry (Audrey Lou) Johnson, Bode; and Mrs. Douglas (Muriel
Hiner, Omaha; 22 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; three brothers:
William Boes, Breda; Cletus Boes, Carroll; and Romain Boes, Carroll;
and a sister, Mer. Henry (Eleanora) Steinkamp, Carroll.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a grandson
and four brothers, the Rev. Norbert, Leonard, Herbert and Aloys
Boes.
Mr. Boes was born on February 16, 1907, at Carnarvon,
Iowa, a son of John and Anna Geier Boes. He spent his young years
in the Carnarvon and Wall Lake communities where he attended county
school and St. Bernard School in Breda.
On August 11, 1931, he was married to Myrtle Grabner
at St. Bernard's Church in Breda by the Rev. E.L. Schleyer. After
their marriage the couple made their home on the farm two and a
half miles north of Breda which is there current residence.
He was a member of St. Bernard parish, the Breda Catholic
Order of Foresters, and the Third Order of St. Francis.
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