Booth, Owen "Jack" - 1920-1984

BOOTH CARVER

Posted By: Linda Vander Linden-Volunteer (email)
Date: 5/4/2011 at 12:37:54

Owen "Jack" Booth, 63, of Fort Dodge, formerly of Ireton, died Saturday in a Fort Dodge nursing home after a long illness.

Services were at 10:30 A.M., Wednesday in Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Fort Dodge. Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery in Fort Dodge under the direction of the Lauresweiler Funeral Home of Fort Dodge.

Mr. Booth was born Oct. 24, 1920, in Mapleton. As a child, he moved with his parents to Ireton where he attended schools. After he graduated from Ireton High School, he moved to Elk Point, SD, where he was employed as a meat cutter.

In 1942, Mr. Booth enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served on a PT boat in the South Pacific. After his discharge in 1945, he was employed as a meat cutter by grocery stores in Carroll, Algona and Fort Dodge. He retired in 1979 because of ill health.

He married Norma Carver in Carroll in 1946.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Tom of Coeur De'Alene, Idaho, and Steve of Redondo Beach, CA; a daughter, Barbara Rogers of Shakopee, MN; a sister, Mrs. Don (Fola) Hoemann of Denison, and three grandchildren.

Sioux Center News, March 16, 1984