Bob Boardman (44) passed away
Message from Beatty Boardman, Bob’s wife:
Bob passed away on Friday, September 4, 2009 in the Frazee Care Center. The funeral is Thursday, September 10 at 11;00 AM. at Bethlehem Lutheran Church,Frazee, Mn. Visitation, Wednesday 4:00- 8:00 PM. We will be celebrating his life at this time.
Beatty, Our condolence are with you and the whole Boardman family with the passing of Bob. Vickie Metcalfe said she saw Luella and Ralph today/yesterday in Bottineau. Vickie sent me Bob’s Obituary that I have posted below. Our thought’s and prayers are with you. Gary
| Boardman | Donald | Bottineau, ND 5831860 | ||||
| Boardman | Harold | Born July 7, 1929–Died March 1985 | Deceased | 46 | ||
| Boardman | Robert | Frazee, MN 56544-8500 44 | ||||
| Boardman Bjornseth | Luella | Bottineau, ND 58318 49 |
| Boardman Smith | Joyce | Chicago, IL 60638-4916 53 |
Frazee, Minn. Died Friday, Sept. 4, 2009, at age 83 in Frazee Care Center under the care of Hospice of the Red River Valley.
Robert Claire Boardman
Frazee, Minn.
Died Friday, Sept. 4, 2009, at age 83 in Frazee Care Center under the care of Hospice of the Red River Valley.
Survivors: wife, Betty; two sons, David (Charleen) Boardman, Gary (Dawn) Boardman; daughter, Donna (Terry) Atherton; brother, Don (Irene) Boardman; and two sisters, Luella (Ralph) Bjornseth, Joyce (Jim) Smith.
Services: Visitation will be Wednesday from 4 to 8, with a prayer service at 6:30, in Furey Funeral Home, Frazee, and Thursday from 10 to 11, followed by the funeral at 11, in Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Frazee. Burial: Church cemetery.
Gary: Our great country was indeed fortunate when Truman had to step
in on April 12, 1945 and assume the great responsibility of the
presidency and World War II. The sign on his desk “The Buck Stops Here”
was not just a sign to him, it was fact, and with the grave decisions he
had to make, he made them. He never disgraced the office and he led our
country forward. There should be more like him today.
Mona Johnson, ’48
Thanks for sharing those pictures Gary,they really meant alot.
Later…Ms.Aggie
Aggie, I lost a lot of my pictures when I had computer problems a while back. I am going back through the old messages capturing some of those pictures and in the process I am reposting a few for folks to see that were not on our distribution when they were originally posted. There are a whole bunch of us from the 60’s classes that served in Viet Nam. For fear of missing a few, I will not start naming names, but I will be re-posting their pictures as I come to them.Gary Wall was a Dentist in Viet Nam and I was a Dental Technician. Gary was from Bottineau and I of coarse from Dunseith. We met for the first time in Viet Nam and worked in the same small clinic for 6 months before Gary went back to the states having served his full year and I was transferred to a different Clinic in country. Gary is now retired, living in Bottineau. He is married to Loretta Neameyer, one of our own, from the class of 72. These old pictures are coming up in the same order as they were posted the first time, so Kenny Nerpel’s reply to our picture follows right in line with the previous postings. Gary
Previously posted with message 170 on July 24, 2008
Viet Nam Pictures & message from Kenny Nerpel (65):
Turtle Mountain Americans,
Regarding Gary’s Vietnam photo: Gary Wall and Gary Stokes
Wow, those are some strack troops (ideal in military dress, demeanor and
bearing). Notice the bloused boots and clean uniforms. I think I
remember using something called boot blousers when we were in basic and
AIT to get that clean professional look, but I never saw anything like
that in Vietnam. Where did you get them anyway? Where I was we got clean
uniforms in bulk every two to three weeks, whether we needed them or
not. Sometimes they came in by convoy; other times they just dropped
them out a chopper and then it was a mad scramble to try to find
something near the correct size.
The attached photos (Trang Bang, The Road and The Road2) are of members
of my platoon while on road security (it looks like blue ribbon was the
beverage of choice back then) and of Vietnamese soldiers (White Mice)
searching through the belongings of people wanting to use the road. All
photos except the the one taken from the air were taken the same day
along the dirt road Six Alpha, which connected the village of Trang Bang
with FSB (Fire Support Base) Pershing. The brown-uniformed guys are
South Vietnamese police called white mice; the nickname came from their
uniforms and I think that they sometimes wore white helmets and gloves.
The photo from the air is of a small fire base (Dees) taken from an
approaching helicopter. The smoke indicates where they want the chopper
to land.
It’s been about forty years now, so maybe it’s time for a Vietnam story:
The Road
Highway 1 was a paved highway out of Saigon (Ho Ci Minh City) running
through Cu Chi, Trang Bang and on towards Tay Ninh. It proceeded
northwest about 15 miles to the city of Cu Chi and then it was about 8
miles farther to Trang Bang. Near Trang Bang was a bridge and FSB
Stuart. The road where these pictures were taken was the dirt road Six
Alpha, a secondary road leading from Trang Bang north to FSB Pershing
then on to the Saigon River. The Vietnamese fellow (Wine Maker) visiting
with the troops lived along this road and made some of the worst rice
wine that has ever been made. He was always more than willing to share
some of it with us and we were willing to partake. We figured what are
they going to do to us anyway? Send us to Vietnam? This road was a
supply route and had to be patrolled to protect the convoys supplying
FSB Pershing about 4 to 5 miles up the road from FSB Stuart. Daily
convoys from Cu Chi took this route and required heavy security because
of constant mining of the road and harassment of the convoys by the VC.
Road security was welcome duty. It afforded the opportunity to mingle
with the locals and it was a break from the other duties of the
infantryman. Even though considered good duty it was not without danger.
On one of my first assignments to road security I remember saying, “this
isn’t so bad.” On that day we were providing security for the
minesweepers, which involved patrolling both sides of the road while the
engineers went down the middle sweeping for land mines. I happened to be
the closest to an engineer when a mine was discovered. I took a seat on
the shoulder of the road while the engineer proceeded to dig the mine
out. Suddenly there was a deafening explosion. The mine had been
triggered. I looked up and saw huge chunks of earth flying up and then
dropping back towards the ground. Another member of the platoon who had
been “in country” for awhile came over to me to see if I had been
injured and when I said I had not, he remarked, “I think you should help
look for the body parts. I always do because if this happens to one of
my friends, I think it would make it easier for me to help bag up the
body.”
Welcome to Vietnam!
Kenny
Kenny Nerpel – Viet Nam
The Road2
Kenny Nerpel – Viet Nam
Trang Bang
The Road
White Mice
Wine Maker
Dees
Memorial given for Cliff Henry at our class of 65 reunion on July 12, 2007
Aggie, All of us in these 2 memorial pictures are Viet Nam Veterans.
Holding the flags are Henry Hackman & Kenny Nerpel with Pet Gillis & Warren Anderson
Bill Grimme in front reading Cliff Henry’s Eulogy.
In the back holding the flags Henry Hackman, Kenny Kerpel. I’m not sure who the person between them is?
Pete Gillis, Joe Casavant, Rene Casavant, Gary Stokes, John Bedard, Warren Anderson, ??, Ron Strong?
Cliff Henry (Deceased) from the class of 65
Kenny Nerpel (65): Note Kenny and I went through
Basis training together at Fort Lewis. Gary
Robney Lagerquist (67)
Served in Viet Nam
Lyle Lagerquist (68)
Stationed in Germany
