Bomboy

Bomboy, Rova M. Bowman – Obituary

Rova M. Bomboy, 93, Pendleton, died Friday, Jan. 20, 1984 at Delamarter Care Center, Pendleton. Funeral will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Burns Mortuary Chapel, Pendleton, with burial at Olney Cemetery, Pendleton. She was born Oct. 18, 1890, at Pendleton, the daughter of William and Xantippe Lee Bowman. She had lived in Pendleton all her life. [Rova’s first husband, George Christy, died in 1935]. On July 1, 1955 she was married to Bruce Bomboy. He died in 1966. Mrs. Bomboy was a member of the First Christian Church, Pendleton. She had been a member of Pauline Rebekah Lodge 13, since … Read more

Bomboy, Thomas Bruce – Obituary

Funeral will be here Tuesday for Thomas Bruce Bomboy, 80, retired mortician and resident of Pendleton since May of 1925. Mr. Bomboy died Wednesday night [March 16, 1966] at St. Anthony Hospital. He was secretary of the Odd Fellows Lodge for many years and he received the Service medal from the Grand Lodge May 19, 1954, the first such medal issued in Oregon. Mr. Bomboy was born in Columbia County, PA. When he came to Pendleton he purchased the Brown Funeral Home at SW 4th and Dorion, which he operated until he sold to Charles and Joe Burns Jan. 1, … Read more