Leo Donald BOYLE

1901 - 1967  (66 years)

• Name	Leo Donald BOYLE
  Birth	12 May 1901	Iowa
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Oct 1967	Klamath County, Oregon
  	died of cancer according to Michael
  Burial	Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Oregon
  Notes	He went by Donald, his middle name. His widow was Evelyn according to the Oregon death index. In the 1920 census, he was a yard clerk for a railroad. In the 1930 census, he was no longer living with his mother and step-father. In that census, he is living with his dead wife’s brother, Edward Haines, in a rented house on South Riverside in Klamath Falls. He is a widower and works as a salesman for a railroad. No children are living with him. Collette and Colleen are shown as “boarders” in the household of Gertrude and Phil Schroeder in Klamath Falls. The city directories indicate that he lived in Klamath Falls when he was married to Myrtle. He was a traveling agent for the Great Northern Railroad. (A 1932 article in The Oregonian agrees with this.) He was with Evelyn in the 1949 directory, he was still with Myrtle in the 1938 directory. A somewhat odd article about him appeared in The Klamath News, 27 Aug 1938, under the heading of Klamath Railroaders, Salesman: “The gentleman above is L. D. Boyle, traveling freight agent for the Great Northern. Boyle’s favorite food is lamb. He eats a lamb chop for the first course, another for the main part of the dinner, and for dessert he eats still another chop. He doesn’t care for those sweet desserts and always takes an extra piece of meat instead. “Leo Donald Boyle was born at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, May 12, 1901. At least that’s what jis parents say. He just can’t seem to remember much about it himself. When Don was 6 years old his family moved to Portland, Oregon, and the boy attended school there. “In his fifteenth year while he was still going to high school Don decided that he was tired of asking his father for a dime all the time. He was going to make his own money. So he got a job with the SPS railway in the operating department, going to school from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and working from 4 p.m. to 12 a.m. “After his graduation Boyle still worked for the SPS, keeping this job until 1925. Then he was employed by the Great Northern railway in the traffice department in Portland. In September, 1927, Don was transferred to Klamath Falls. That was before the line had yet operated here. “But Boyle opened offices in the Slater building here with C. N. Christopherson and prepared for the building of the Great Northern railway into Klamath Falls. “In 1935, Boyle, who then had two children and whose wife had died in 1929, decided that he wasn’t a very good mother to his two sons so on January 2 of that year he marrried Miss Myrtle Bye, a school teacher here. “The next year Don was promoted to traveling freight agent, which position he has held since. The duties of a traveling freight agent are practically the same as that of a traveling salesman. Boyle solicits for livestock and general shipments from central Oregon. His territory is quite a large one, from Bieber, California, to The Dalles in Oregon and Don is traveling almost all the time. “The Boyles have three children, Robert 15, Floyd, 13, and Patsy Mae, 5. The family lives on Pacific Terrace. “Don likes railroading, hunting, and fishing. He says he isn’t home often enough to have any favorite pastime around the house but according to his wife he is a wonderful “fixer.” He does all the kalsomining, painting, and furniture repair around the house. “Boyle has a reddish complexion (his hair used to be red but it turned brown with hard work, he claims), is bery energetic and has a million-dollar disposition. He his always happy and carefree and never gets really angry.” In the 1940 census, Leo, Myrtle, Robert, Floyd, and Patsy lived at 10305 Skidmore in Parkrose in Oregon. Leo had four years of high school, Myrtle had four years of college. Five years earlier, everyone in the family had lived in Klamath Falls. Leo was a business manager for a (something) Line. He registered for the draft on 15 Feb 1942 in Portland. He was described as 5 ft 9 in tall and weighing 150 lbs. He had blue eyes, brown hair, and a light complexion. The little finger on his left hand had a bent end. He and Myrtle lived at 39th and Alberta Court in Portland. He was employed by the S.P. and S. Railroad at its car office at 11th and Hoyt in Portland. In the record of his marriage to Evelyn in 1943, he listed it as his third marriage. His father was born in Ireland and had been employed as a butcher. His mother was born in Canada. In the 1950 census, he and Evelyn and their blended family (Robert Bye, Mary Lou Bye, and Michael Boyle) live in Klamath Falls. He is a tallyman for a wholesale lumber manufacturing facility. His address is 4780 Peck Drive. In the 1955 Klamath Falls city directory, he and Evelyn and Evelyn’s children from her previous marriage lived at 4680 Peck Drive. Leo, and his step-son Robert, worked for Klamath Basin Pine Mills.
  Person ID	I15300	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	1 Jun 2024

  
  

  Father	James J BOYLE,   b. Aug 1874, Buchanan County, Iowa d. 10 Feb 1910, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon (Age 35 years)
  Mother	Theresa Eleanor ARQUETTE,   b. Feb 1876, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa d. 8 Nov 1944, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	31 Jan 1900	Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa
  Family ID	F23093	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth D HAINES,   b. 1903, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada d. 27 Jan 1930, Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Oregon (Age 27 years)
  Marriage	Abt Jul 1922	Oregon
  	The marriage license was listed in the July 29, 1922, edition of The Oregonian.
  Children	1. Robert Emmet BOYLE,   b. 28 Jul 1923, Oregon d. 19 Mar 1969, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon (Age 45 years)   2. Floyd BOYLE,   b. 23 Apr 1925, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon d. 25 Feb 2001, Oregon (Age 75 years)   3. Colleen BOYLE,   b. 12 Sep 1929, Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Oregon d. 26 Dec 2005, Eugene, Lane County, Oregon (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F11358	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Nov 2021

  
  

  Family 2	Myrtle Theodora BYE,   b. 25 Aug 1903, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota d. 8 Feb 1967, Multnomah County, Oregon (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	2 Jan 1931	Klamath County, Oregon
  	in Klamath Falls by a justice of the peace; his 2nd marriage, her first
  Divorce	Aug 1942	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon
  Children	1. Patricia Mae BOYLE,   b. 29 Oct 1932, Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Oregon d. 30 Nov 2022, Sandy, Clackamas County, Oregon (Age 90 years)
  Family ID	F888	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2021

  
  

  Family 3	Evelyn Agnes BOGUSLASKI,   b. 20 Jun 1909, Wisconsin d. 22 Apr 1978, Lane County, Oregon (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	12 Feb 1943	Multnomah County, Oregon
  Family ID	F11357	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 May 2017