Wayne County Press
Fairfield Illinois

Funeral services for W. O. Boze, one of the veteran businessmen of Wayne County, are to be held at 3 p.m. today at the First Christian Church he helped to organize.

Kent M. Dale, pastor, will officiate and burial will be in Slocumb Cemetery here.

Mr. Boze, who would have been 80 next January 27, died about 4 p.m. Monday at his home, 212 S.E. Second st.

He had suffered a heart attack Sunday afternoon but his condition did not seems serious.  A physician was called Monday when he failed to improve.

He and Dale Dwyer bought the business shortly after the turn of the century and Mr. Boze took over in about 1908.

He worked as usual last Saturday and on Sunday he went to church and sang in the Choir.  After dinner he was sick and  on Monday he complained of  feelling bad.  He did not go to his shop.

Mr. Boze was born on a Wayne county farm Jan. 27, 1872, and came to Fairfield with his parents when he was seven.  He was married to Miss Rosella Rice of Enfield, who died in 1942, and in 1944 was married to Mrs. Adeline Barbee of Fairfield.

Surviving besides Mrs. Boze, include a daughter, Mrs. Edna Melrose of Corona, Calif.,  four grand daughters, Mrs. Bernice  Melrose-Hubbard, of California, Miss Dorothy Boze of Long Beach, California; and Mrs. Lloyd Green, Jr., and Mrs. Wayne Elwyn, both of Fairfield, and three great grandchildren, Steven Lynn Green, Charles Robert Green, and Karen Sue Elwyn, all of Fairfield.

Mr. Boze had not only been a member of the First Christian Church since its organization but for many years was a church officer.  He was a large contributor to the present building erected in the 1920s.

For many years too, Mr. Boze was a member of a quartet that sang at hundreds of funerals in and near Fairfield.  He was also a longtime member of the Masonic and Moderu Woodmen fraternal orders.