Willard Boots 1895-1989

BOOTS, RIGBY

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 2/10/2025 at 11:41:20

5 April 1989 - The Tipton Conservative page 13

Funeral services for Willard L. Boots, 93, were held at the Horner Funeral Home March 25, 1989 with the Rev. David Glenn-Burns officiating. Burial was in Rose Hill cemetery with military rites by the Busch-Dennis Post of the American Legion.

Pallbearers were Albert, Howard, Arthur Jr., and Bernard Boots, Buell Jackson and Leland Williams. Mrs. Calvin Robinson was organist.

Mr. Boots died at the Anamosa Care Center March 23.

The son of William A. and Anna C. Wurzbacher Boots, he was born at Morley July 21, 1895. He married Ruth Rigby June 10, 1920.

Mr. Boots was a veteran of World War I, entering service May 10, 1918. He served in France from Aug. 3, 1918 until June 15, 1919. He was discharged July 5, 1919. As a member of a signal company he took part in action on the Puvenelle sector during the Moselle campaign at the close of the war.

He farmed in the Mechanicsville-Morley area and worked for the Cedar county secondary road department from 1932 until he retired in 1963.

He had a lifelong interest in threshing machines, steam engines and saw mills.

Mr. Boots is survived by nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife, 3 brothers and 2 sisters.