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© Enid News and Eagle Enid, Oklahoma December 20, 2008 August 10, 1915 ~ December 18, 2008 Jessie May Slayter Boehm was born on August 10, 1915, in Cozad, NE, and passed from this earth at the age of 93 on December 18, 2008, in Medford, OK, where she resided. At the age of five she moved to Broadwater, NE, until she left for college. She attended Bethany Peniel College, now Southern Nazarene University, in Bethany, OK, where she met and married her late husband, Earl Boehm. She is preceded in death in 1989 by her husband, W. Earl Boehm, her parents, John Slayter and Ruby Kate Slayter, her brother, Marcus Lee Slayter, and her brother-in-law, Holman Tims. Jessie May Slayter Boehm married W. Earl Boehm on September 29, 1937. They had no birth children, but always thought of their nieces and nephews as their children. Jessie is survived by her sister-in-law, Edna Mary Boehm Tims of Medford, OK; and nieces, Marilyn Tims Olson and husband, Jim of Oklahoma City, and Madelyn Tims Campbell and husband, Tim of Bethany, OK, Carol Hall and husband, Bill of Napa Valley, CA, Margaret Pearson Ramsey of CA; nephew, Montie Tims and wife, Eileen of Houston, TX; and great-niece, Brenda Pettus and husband, David of Wichita, KS; great great nephews, Ian Reaves, Michael Tims and wife, Tara, Chris Tims and wife, Angi, Aaron Campbell, Stuart Campbell; and great-great-nieces, Jamie Smith and husband, Brian, Lisa Lang and husband, Eric, Dana Bellows and husband, Reuben, Jennifer Spence and husband, Brian, and Sara Campbell; and 10 great great great nieces and nephews. Jessie was a homemaker and a support to her husband, Earl, in his cabinet and woodworking business. Together they lived in Childress, TX; Grand Island, NE; Enid, OK, and retired in Medford, OK, 38 years ago. The couple enjoyed a lifelong love of music. They both sang and played. They were members of a local SAMs Camping Club and enjoyed many hours traveling, cooking out and music together. Along with a group of Enid couples, they toured the nation including Yosemite National Park, Disneyland and Epcot Center in Florida. In both the Enid and Medford Nazarene Church, Jessie was very involved in the work of missions, Sunday School and in the Womens Christian Temperance Union. For more than 25 years she ministered to people and led a Bible study at the Medford Care Center. It was that same center, now Servant Living Center, where she resided for the last four years. She was a member and attended every function at the Medford Church of the Nazarene. In addition she was part of all of their large family gatherings for every holiday. Services will be 1:30 p.m. Friday, December 26, 2008, at Medford Church of the Nazarene. Internment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, Enid, OK. |
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