LLOYD E. BOLAND JR., 70, DIES.Byline: Michael Coit Staff Writer GRANADA HILLS - A funeral Mass will be said Monday for Lloyd E. Boland Jr., longtime San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. community leader and husband of former Assemblywoman Paula Boland. Boland died Wednesday after recent surgery for colon cancer colon cancer, cancer of any part of the colon (often called the large intestine). Colon cancer is the second most common cancer diagnosed in the United States. at Granada Hills Community Hospital. He was 70. ``Anything I was able to accomplish for California or anywhere was because he was supportive and loving,'' his wife said. ``He kept me going. He was truly the wind beneath my wings.'' Boland moved from New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. at age 20. He worked for Texaco Inc. for 26 years and later worked for the Olga Co. and chaired the Los Angeles Apparel Industry Credit Managers Association. The Bolands owned a Valley real estate sales office for 11 years before selling the business in 1990. Most recently, he worked for the California Housing Finance Authority. The Bolands were married 23 years. The period included her years in the California Assembly, from 1990 to 1996. Boland recalled ending every night in Sacramento with a call to her husband. ``The last call every night, he would ask me what was going on, just so he could be supportive and encourage me. I could always talk politics with him and counted on his advice and input,'' she said. ``It would have been 10 times as hard without him.'' In addition to supporting Pop Warner Pop Warner refers to
Survivors include son Lloyd E. Boland III and daughter-in-law Kathi Boland of Simi Valley; daughter Maryssa D'Angelo and son-in-law Jerry D'Angelo of North Hills; son Craig Boland of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of state; and three grandchildren. Visitation will be from noon to 8 p.m. Sunday at Bastian & Perrott Mortuary, 18728 Parthenia St., Northridge. The funeral Mass will be said at 11:30 a.m. Monday at St. John Eudes Catholic Church, 9901 Mason Ave., Chatsworth. Burial will follow at San Fernando Mission Cemetery The San Fernando Mission Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese since 1800, and is located at 11160 Stranwood Avenue in the Mission Hills community of northern Los Angeles, California, near the Mission San Fernando Rey de España. . In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be sent to a memorial fund established in Lloyd Boland Jr.'s name at Granada Hills Community Hospital. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Lloyd E. Boland Jr., supporter of youth and medical causes, died Wednesday. |
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