Boise, Ann Garson

Ann passed away February 19, 2013 at the age of 97. She was born in Vincennes, IN, to Joseph and Catherine Gosciniak. She attended college in Vicksburg, MS then graduated with a BA in education from the University of Southern Illinois in Carbondale, IL. After college, Ann taught English in an all-grades rural school. Then she moved to Chicago, worked in Marshall Field & Co. and met and married Howard Bill Boise. They moved to Mountainside and then to Watchung, NJ. While Bill managed Boise's, the family stationery and office equipment business, Ann devoted her attention to her four daughters teaching them to cook and sew and to her home where she developed an interest in gardening. Having a sincere interest in womens issues, she became a member of AAUW and the League of Women Voters and volunteered as a Girl Scout leader and later worked as manager of the gift department at Boise's. In 1992, Ann and Bill retired to Salem, Virginia. There she pursued her passion for plants, maintaining a lovely garden at their home on Academy Street and helping the local garden club to maintain the garden at the Salem Post Office. She also volunteered at the Salem Museum and Historical Society. She and Bill traveled to Poland in 1993 with Global Volunteers where they taught English to children and adults. From 2008 to her death, Ann resided at Snyder Nursing Home and then at Salem Health & Rehabilitation Center. Ann was predeceased by her husband Bill and by her sister Mary Bradley of Tucson, AZ. She is survived by her four daughters and their families including Josephine Boise Budell, Linda Boise, Gretchen Boise and Heidi Boise, and her sons-in-law Steven Goldberg and Dennis Montagna, and grandchildren Lesley and Chase Budell, Emily and Sylvan Goldberg, and Nicholas and Katherine Montagna. A memorial service for family and friends will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, March 16, at Salem Presbyterian Church. Memorial contributions may be made to the Roanoke Symphony. An online guestbook is available at www.johnmoakey.com. Service Details.