William R. Boring

William R. Boring

William R. "Bill" Boring died Sunday, Jan. 11, 2004, in Williamsburg following an illness.

The only son of retired Air Force Col. Robert R. Boring and Olive V. Boring, Bill was born in Pasadena, Calif., on July 4, 1925.

He entered military service in 1943 and went through basic training at Fort Benning, Ga. He was assigned to the 86th Infantry Division and went to the European theater in the fall of 1944. He attended Infantry OCS at Fontainebleau, France, and received his commission as a second lieutenant in May of 1945, at the age of 19. He deployed back to the United States in August of 1946 and was honorably discharged as a first lieutenant.

Bill married Maude LaClair Boggs, the daughter of Iva Jerrell and Francis C. Boggs of Spotsylvania County on December 23, 1948. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1950 with a degree in forestry. He received a civil service appointment to the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, then transferred to the Forest Service, USDA, in 1951.

Bill served in various management positions in the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region, then transferred to Washington, D.C., in 1977, where he rose to the rank of Assistant Director of Lands. He retired from Forest Service in 1981 and moved to Lake Anna in Spotsylvania County, where he and Maude lived for 16 years.

Bill and Maude moved to Pa- triots Colony in Williamsburg in October 1997.

He is survived by his beloved wife, Maude; two daughters, Anne Elizabeth Boring Vermilion of Eagle, Idaho, and Barbara LaClair Boring of Winthrop, Washington; a son-in-law, James Vermilion of Eagle, Idaho; and two grandchildren, Michael Vermilion and Deborah Vermilion.

A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at Patriots Colony, with the Rev. Janna Roche presiding. Interment will be held privately.

Arrangements are by Nelsen Funeral Home, Williamsburg. Condolences may be registered online at nelsenfh.com.