William "Stan" BOUCHARD

BOUCHARD, PENTICO, GROSS, FINCH, ABBOT, GILTNER, SUMMERS, MIDGET, MCDOWELL, ESKAM, DEITZ

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/12/2007 at 11:49:43

Gazette, The (Colorado Springs, CO)
August 22, 1996

WILLIAM "STAN" BOUCHARD, 69, died Aug. 18, 1996, at a local hospital. He served as a minister for 46 years and as executive director of the Rocky Mountain Christian Mission since 1980. Friends may call from 10 to 11 a.m. today at Sunnyside Christian Church, 2025 N. Murray Blvd. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. today at Sunnyside Christian Church. Evergreen Funeral Home, 1830 E. Fountain Blvd., is handling arrangements.

Mr. Bouchard was born July 1, 1927, in Belton, Mo., to William and Louella (Pentico) Bouchard. He was married July 1, 1949, to Doris Jean Gross, who is deceased. He remarried July 11, 1987, in Colorado Springs to Bettye Ann Finch, who lives in Colorado Springs. He also is survived by a son, David of Des Moines, Iowa; four daughters, Susan Abbot of Liberal, Mo., Paula Giltner of Joplin, Mo., Lou Ann Summers of Salt Lake City and Connie Midget of Red Deer, Alberta; two stepsons, Paul Finch of Macon, Ga., and Dusty Finch of Denver; a stepdaughter, Dawn McDowell of Hollywood, Fla.; a sister, Beverly Eskam of Yuma, Ariz.; and 21 grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a brother, Dwayne and a sister, Claudia Elizabeth Deitz.

Mr. Bouchard graduated from Minnesota Bible College in 1951. He served in the Navy from 1945 to 1946. He was the minister who established the Falcon, Woodland Park, Castle Rock and Airport Christian Churches. He had also served churches in Brookings, S.D.; Goldfield, Iowa; Rockwell, Iowa; Eugene, Ore.; Amarillo, Texas; Holyoke; Longmont; and Littleton.