Wahkiakum Co. Eagle-August 1954

RIVER VICTIM

  Picture of Leonard Boylan

  The rigors of the Columbia River beside which he had lived most of 
his days, last week took the life of Leonard Boylan, well known and 
popular construction man and fisherman.  Leonard was lost along with 
five other crew members of the tug Muleduzer, work boat of the Larson 
Construction Company which was undertaking preliminary work on a 
cofferdam at Bonneville.
  At press time the body of the Cathlamet man had not been recovered.  
The accident occurred on Friday afternoon, as the Larson tug was 
jockeying a barge near the swift intake of one of the Bonneville Dam 
spillways.
  Leonard was a nearhalf-century resident of this area having moved 
here at six years of age from his birthplace in Oregon City in 1906.  
He had celebrated his fifty-fourth birthday on Jan. 21.
  The well known features of him could be seen for years past as 
fisherman or carpenter in and about Cathlamet and Puget Island.  
Recently he had been engaged by the Larson Construction Company in the 
building of the Elochoman hatchery and followed that firm to its new 
and tragedy-ridden assignment at Bonneville.
  He is survived by his wife, Lenore; six children, eight 
grandchildren, two brothers and four sisters.  The children are:  Naomi 
Simpson, Bremerton; Betty Stewart, Vancouver; Jennita Massey, Salem, 
Ore.; Florence Boylan, Puget Island; Vernon, Longview; and Billy Boylan 
of Puget Island.  Brothers are:  Fred of Camas and Vernon of Scappoose;
sisters:  Rita Rodal, Cathlamet; Mrs. Maynard Pezziro and Mrs. Jack 
Antonsen of Grande Rounde, Ore., and Mrs. Melvin Farmer of Portland.


Longview Memorial Park-Longview, Wa.
22 Jan 1900-20 Aug 1954
(As transcribed by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society Museum)