Native Californian, World War II veteran, retired California
Highway Patrolman, husband, father, grandfather and
great-grandfather, Ernest Edward Boswell died Dec. 8, 2004 at his
son’s home in Shingle Springs, after a year-long battle with
cancer.
Native Californian, World War II veteran, retired California Highway Patrolman, husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, Ernest Edward Boswell died Dec. 8, 2004 at his son’s home in Shingle Springs, after a year-long battle with cancer.
Mr. Boswell was born to Thomas Edward and Eva Lucille Scott Boswell on Dec. 17, 1927 in Redding. He graduated from Shasta High School and joined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1945. He also married his high school sweetheart Dorothy Linn.
After two years service, he returned to Redding and held various jobs; a PG&E lineman, Dunsmuir policeman, and Redding City Electrical Department.
In 1947 his daughter Susan was born and in 1948 son Tom joined the family.
On Oct. 4, 1954 he started his career with the California Highway Patrol in Sacramento. After graduation he was assigned to the Culver City CHP office as State Traffic Officer.
In 1955, he transferred to the Anaheim CHP office. In 1960 he was promoted to sergeant and assigned to the San Jose CHP office. In 1961 the family was blessed with the addition of another third child, Sheri.
Mr. Boswell’s career continued with a transfer in 1966 to the CHP Academy as an instructor of cadets. In 1968, he was promoted to lieutenant and remained at the CHP academy with responsibility for actual training. In 1970 he was promoted to captain and assigned as the commander of the CHP’s Hollister-Gilroy office where he retired on Dec. 30, 1981, after 27 years and two months of service.
For the next nine years the couple retired to their winter home and traveled and skied until his wife’s death in 1989. Mr. Boswell continued to travel, golf (not very well) and ski.
He is survived by son, Tom Boswell (a retired CHP lieutenant) in Shingle Springs; daughters, Sue Gray in Merced and Sheri Boswell in Morgan Hill; 10 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and his sister, Alice Joseph in Redding.
There will be a memorial in Redding at a later date. Any donations may be sent to the El Dorado County Snowline Hospice, 670 Placerville Drive, Suite 2, Placerville, CA 95667, in Ernie Boswell’s name.
