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Rosary for Leo J. Savoie 65, of Nampa Route
1, who died of natural causes Wednesday, Oct. 19, in a Nampa
hospital, will be recited at 8 p.m. Sunday at Flahiff Funeral
Chapel of Nampa.
Mass of Christian
Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Paul's
Catholic Church by the Rev. Merle J. Fisher, S.M.
Interment will follow at Mt. Calvary Cemetery.
He was born Dec. 15, 1917, at Clyde, Kan., a twin son of
Eugene and Adelaide Tremblay Savoie. At the age of 18
months, he and his family moved to Minnesota where he was
reared and educated. As a young man he farmed with his
mother until serving with the Conservation Corps Camps in
northern Minnesota. While a member of the CCC he joined
the National Guard and was inducted into the U.S. Army on Oct.
5, 1940, and served as an A-T Gun Crewman and heavy truck
driver for HW Company, Second Battalion, 417th Infantry in
central Europe.
After his discharge on
Sept. 16, 1945, he returned to Minnesota and worked for the
State School and Hospital, and later drove concrete trucks
until moving to Nampa in 1968 with his wife Isabel Cowger
Gustafson, whom he married at Faribault, Mimi., on Dec. 21,
1962. He drove trucks for Idaho Concrete in Nampa until
retiring in 1979.
He was a member of St.
Paul's Catholic Church.
He is survived
by his wife of Nampa; one step-son, Robert Gustafson, Seaside,
Ore.; one step-daughter, Beverly Christensen, Sacramento,
Calif.; two brothers, (twin brother) Francis, Faribault, Minn.
and Vic, Dayton, Ohio; one sister, Madeline Zensen, Faribault,
Minn.; six step-grandchildren; five step-great-grandchildren;
and numer-ous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by
his parents, one step-son and one brother.
Memorials may be made to St. Paul's Catholic Church, Nampa, or
flowers may be sent.
Friends may call
at Flahiff Funeral Chapel of Nampa today until 9 p.m.,
Saturday from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. until
time of Rosary. |
