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Patrick Lloyd Boileau was born to Lloyd and Thrya Boileau in Marinette, Wisc., on Dec. 29, 1927. His boyhood was spent on the shores of Green Bay and Lake Michigan where he learned to love swimming and sailing. After completing high school, Pat enrolled at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Mich., where he studied to become a mining engineer.
When World War II broke out, Pat enlisted in the Army, to serve his country. He trained at Ft. Lewis and made corporal, but the war ended before his unit was called. Pat returned to Wisconsin and then graduated from Michigan Tech. He married his sweetheart, Carol Jean Uecke on Dec. 29, 1948.
Pat went to work for Hanna Mining Company as a mining engineer. He loved his work and was good at it. These were hard rock mines where iron and other metals were mined. The miners were as hard as the minerals they wrested from the earth, and Pat enjoyed the company of these tough men as well as the engineers he worked with.
Pat and Carol had three children: Ann Eleanor, Michael William and Joan Carol. Because of Pat’s work the family moved often. They lived in Michigan, Missouri, Colorado, Maine, Pennsylvania, and Utah.
As an engineer, Pat loved to build things, including houses. He designed and/or supervised construction of many of the homes the family lived in. He was particularly proud of the home he built for his family on Fortune Lake in Michigan. That house had a dock, where Pat and his family enjoyed many happy times swimming, boating and water-skiing.
In 1983, Pat was asked to work for the Department of Energy at Hanford. They put him on a team to figure out a safe place for nuclear waste, a job he worked at until his retirement. In 1984, he lost his wife Carol to cancer.
Pat meet Betty Ann (Wess) Newell and they married in Wenatchee in 1986. They lived in the Tri-Cities. Then in 1990 they both retired and moved to Durango, Colo. In 2005, they moved to Trout Lake.
Pat Boileau died April 29, 2014, in Hood River, Ore., and was predeceased by his parents, his first wife, Carol, son Mike and daughter Ann.
He is survived by his wife, Betty, daughter Joan, son-in-law Joe (Luana) Pacheco, brother Jack (Kay) Boileau, several nieces, nephews and cousins, his step-children, Sharon (Jim) Bryan, Paul (Sally) Newell, Tim (Karen) Newell, Jayne (Scott) Allen, Lester (Shelly) Newell and their many children and grandchildren.
Services will be held at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in White Salmon on Saturday, May 17, 2014, the rosary at 10:30 a.m. with the Mass following at 11.
Contributions in Pat’s name can be sent to Heart of Hospice, 2621 Wasco St., Hood River, Ore., 97031 or charity of choice.
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