Lynn Norris Boothe

Lynn Norris Boothe died peacefully at St. John's Lutheran Home on Aug. 16, 2015.

Lynn was born in Ogden, Utah, to Norris J. Boothe and LaVon Green Boothe on Sept. 1, 1925. The family moved to Montana when he was two. He grew up in the Malta area and graduated from Malta High School in 1943. Following graduation in the midst of World War II, he enlisted in the Navy and trained and served as a radio and gunnery crewman on SBD5 Dive Bombers.

In 1945, Lynn married Mildred Green, of Malta. Six months after their wedding, Mildred's parents died in a car accident. Lynn and Mildred took in two of h...