Funeral services for Charles Booram will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 21, at Roberson Funeral Home, Bethany. Burial is in the Masonic Cemetery, Gilman City. The family will receive friends from 10–11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Masonic Cemetery, Gilman City, in care of Roberson Funeral Home, P.O. Box 46, Bethany, Mo., 64424.
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Charles V. Booram, Jr. 71, Gilman City, died Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014, as a result of a vehicular accident.
He was born June 8, 1943, at the old Cullers Hospital in Trenton, the son of Charles V., Sr. and Addie Lorie (Whitt) Booram.
Charles grew up on a farm south of Gilman City, where he attended all 12 grades of school.
On July 30, 1965, he married Cleta Sexton at the Melbourne Baptist Church.
He attained both a B.S. and master’s degree in agricultural engineering at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan.
Before attaining his Ph.D. degree from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, he was drafted into the Army. Charles was stationed at Ft. Leonardwood, Ft. Lewis, Wash., and with the 7th Administrative Company – SJA 7th Infantry Division Tongduchon, Korea.
He served as a legal clerk at the Division Staff Judge Advocates’ Office and received the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service in Korea. He was honorably discharged June 1974.
After attaining a dual Ph.D. degree in agricultural engineering and civil engineering, he accepted a position with the University of Georgia doing full time research at the Coastal Plains Experiment Station, Tifton, Ga.
In 1979, he and his family moved back to Missouri to farm. He worked briefly for the State of Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Division of Environment, Bureau of Water Quality as supervisor of Agricultural Waste Unit.
Along with farming, he hauled propane gas and was a substitute rural mail carrier for the United States Post Office, Gallatin.
In June 2004, Charles accepted a position as a crop insurance adjuster and that was his present occupation.
He was preceded in death by his parents and father and mother-in-law, Rev. and Mrs. Cleo Sexton.
Survivors include his wife, Cleta of the home; children, Debra Jackson, Raymore, Michelle (Bob) Phelps, Charlotte, N.C., and Eric Booram, Gilman City; and six grandchildren.