LEWISTON — Jerry Der Boghosian spent a lifetime advocating for veterans until his death last year at age 91. Veterans from Lewiston and Auburn will memorialize that commitment on Saturday. After a Memorial Day parade through the Twin Cities, veterans will unveil a stone bench in Der Boghosian’s honor, next to the granite monuments at […]
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Vets raising money to honor Der Boghosian with memorial bench
LEWISTON — Jerry Der Boghosian, a tireless advocate for local veterans who died in a June car accident, may soon be memorialized with a stone bench in a Lewiston park. Veterans began raising $2,000 to buy and engrave a bench for the downtown Veterans Memorial Park. They want to unveil it next Memorial Day. “He […]
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‘We have lost our Jerry’: Der Boghosian, 91, died Friday
LEWISTON — Saturday was a sad day for Erin Reed at the Trinity Jubilee Center — and for everyone who knew Jerry Der Boghosian. Der Boghosian, 91, passed away Friday afternoon on his way to an appointment at the Togus Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Augusta, Reed said Saturday. “We have lost our Jerry,” Reed, […]
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Der Boghosian reunited with Pershing’s bust
LEWISTON — Jerry Der Boghosian, 90, has been reunited with a thought-was-lost relic of the defunct Lewiston United Members veterans club — a bust of World War I Gen. John Joseph “Blackjack” Pershing. Der Boghosian thought it was gone, lost when the once-popular downtown club closed its doors in 2002. However, as described in a […]
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Few relics survive of Lewiston’s United Members veterans club
LEWISTON — In the final days of the United Members veterans club, Jerry Der Boghosian walked through the downtown hall and saved what he could. “Papers were strewn all over the place,” said Der Boghosian, 90. “Pictures were thrown around here and there.” It was nine years ago, and it seemed like a final indignity […]