Frost Funeral Home

Thompson Formerly of Wallowa County and La Grande1935-2019 Daryl Albert Thompson, 83, of Milton-Freewater and formerly of Wallowa County and La Grande, died May 16. A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. May 31 at the Milton-Freewater Cemetery with Pastor Owen Frost of the Stateline Community Church officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Munselle-Rhodes Funeral Home of Milton-Freewater. Daryl was born Oct. 12, 1935, in Enterprise, to Raymond E. and Vera Ellen (Davis) Thompson. He grew up in the Reavis district on Alder Slope and attended Reavis Grade School and Enterprise High School. In 1955, Daryl married Laverne Holland, and they had four children. They divorced in 1967. He married Sharon Finnell Bozarth in 1968, and they divorced in 1999. He married Roberta Cullen Ison in 2000, and she passed away in November of 2002. In 2004, he married Peggy C. Searles. Daryl worked as a farm laborer, for Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads in track maintenance, and in the woods as a faller and as a choker setter on high lead logging. When work in the woods slowed down, he became the head custodian of the Warm Springs Grade School on the Warm Springs Reservation. After taking a home study course in heavy equipment, Daryl was hired by the Case Dealership in Madras. He later moved with his family to Walla Walla, Washington, where he worked for the John Deere Dealership. Later Daryl took a job with the Oregon Highway Department, working in Bend in the summer and at Government Camp on Mt. Hood in the winter. In 1976 he was transferred to the La Grande shop. In 1988 he was promoted to field mechanic in Roseburg, where he retired in 1995. In 2000 Daryl moved to Milton-Freewater. In his retirement, Daryl enjoyed gardening and woodworking. Surviving relatives include his wife, Peggy Thompson; daughters, Katherine Moore and Margaret Taylor and her husband, Michael; sons, Joseph Thompson, Gordon Bozarth, Daniel Bozarth and Nolan Bozarth; seven grandch...