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OBITUARY

Wayne County Press
May 15, 1961

HERSCHEL BOZE, 75,
DIES AT HOSPITLAL

Was Veteran Newspaper Printer
Here; Funeral Rites Tuesday Afternoon

J. H. (Herschel) Boze, 75, a well known Fairfield resident and retired newspaper man, died at 7 o'clock Sunday morning at Memorial hospital where he had been a patient two and half weeks.

Mr. Boze had been hospitalized before and in declining health for nearly six years. He had suffered a number of strokes.

Veteran Printer

He once worked for the Wayne County Press and for a longer time with the Wayne County Record, where he was foreman of the mechanical department for many years and _ater advertising manager. He also worked for printing firms in St. Louis and Detroit.

Funeral Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday from Nale's Home with Rev. Walter Smith officiating. Intermate will be at Maple Hill cemetery (can not read)
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at the funeral home until the funeral hour.

John Herschel, son of John Thomas and Martha McLin Boze, was born in Fairfield, December 9th, 1885.

Methodist Church Member

He was a longtime member of the Fairfield First Methodist church and once belonged to the Moderin Woodman organization.

He helped found the first Fairfield Boy Scout troop, about 1915.

Mr. Boze through the years worked for William M. Goudy, John Rapp, Judge John L. Cooper, H. G. Ferguson, T. O. Mathews, and John Temple, publishers of the city's two newspapers.

He was married to Mabel Zimmerman, with two sons born to this union.

His father died when he was six months old and his mother died when he was age nine. He was reared to manhood by his grandmother, Wilmouth McLin.

A brother also preceded him in death, as did a granddaughter, Rebecca Ann Boze, on May 27th, 1956.

List of Survivors

Surviiving are his widow, Mabel; two sons, Max Boze, of Mill Shoals, and H. Urban Boze, of Fairfield, and one granddaugher, Barbara Boze, of Fairfield.