Charles Boring

Charles L. Boring Charles Leroy Boring of Neodesha, KS, died Monday, June 1, 2009, at the Wilson Medical Center Reece Campus. He was 77. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Friday, June 5, 2009, at Penwell-Gabel Loran Fawcett Chapel. Pastor Jim Logan will officiate. Interment will be in Altoona Cemetery with military honors provided by the US Marine Corps Reserve. Friends may call to register on Thursday from 9 a.m.-8 p.m. at the funeral home. The family will receive friends from 6-7 p.m. on Thursday. The son of Charles and Opal V. Crisp Boring, he was born April 4, 1932, in Neodesha, KS. He graduated from Neodesha High School and later attended Independence Junior College. He was ordained as a minister in the Fire Baptized Holiness Church. Mr. Boring served with the US Marines both in the Korean Conflict and the Vietnam War. He rose to the rank of Staff Sergeant and was awarded five silver stars and the Purple Heart. Following his honorable discharge, he was employed at IMCO in Neodesha and later as a jailer at the Wilson County Jail and as a guard at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility in Hutchinson, KS. On April 14, 1963, he was united in marriage to Althea V. Taylor in Long Beach, CA. Together they resided Neodesha, Hutchinson and Stafford, KS, before returning to Neodesha in 2006. She survives at the home. Mr. Boring was a member of the VFW, the American Legion and the Fire Baptized Holiness Church of Neodesha. In addition to his wife, he is survived by one son, Charles L. Sonny Boring II of Neodesha; one daughter, Toshiko L. Gillespie and her husband Mural of Neodesha; two sisters, Frances Dorner of Neodesha and Kathy Mills of Independence, KS; two grandchildren, Amelia Viola Boring and Charles Boring III of Neodesha; one step-grandson, Seth A. Cole of Fort Riley, KS; and three great-grandchildren, Madison Cole, Leista Buckman and Brianna Banks of Hutchinson. He is preceded in death by his parents and three brothers, Richard, Edward and Herbert. Memorial contributions may be made to American Cancer Society.