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- Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 8/21/1950
Services for a 34-year-old Lock-
port native who, with his twin
rother, saw hazardous wartime
duty with a Navy minesweeper in
the Pacific will be held tomorrow
morning.
He was George Ivan Boyer. son
of Walter and Edith Overend Boyer
of Lockport, who died Saturday
at his home on the Godfrey Road.
Burt, after a long Illness. Before
the war he was a machinist at the
Dewey Almy Chemical Company.
Mr. Boyer and his twin, H. Vernon
Boyer, of Lockport. enlisted in
the Navy March 28. 1944 and
through special Intercession of the
late President Roosevelt, received
training and assignments to duty
at the same shore and ship sta-
tions. Their minesweeper was ac-
tive in advance echelons of Pacific
and Aeutian campaigns.
Besides his parents and brother,
he is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Helen Singer Boyer, and two children.
Donna Marie and John Frederick
Boyer, all of Burt, and his
grandparents, Mrs. Laura Boyer
and Mrs. Agnes Overend, both of
Lockport.
Services will be held at 9 o'clock
tomorrow at the Prudden Funeral
Home", 342 Genesee St.. and at 10
o'clock at St. Charles Borromeo
Church. Olcott. Burial will be in
Wright's Corners Cemetery.
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Abt 1915 - 1950 (35 years)