Former WPGA President passes away
October 11, 2007
Jeff Rivard, Executive Director (contact)
Richard J.
Boughner, WPGA President, 1993-94,
died on Tuesday, October 9, at the age of ninety.
A member at
Youghiogheny CC in
McKeesport
for decades, Boughner won two club
championships and two senior club titles. He
served on the WPGA Executive Committee, 1984-94.
A native of
Akron,
Ohio,
Boughner graduated from The Ohio
State University. He was a starting guard on
the basketball team, and played in the first NCAA Final Four in
1939. Boughner
was in the retail optical business, and owned Dunn-Scott Optical
in
Pittsburgh.
He was selected as National Optician of the
Year—1975. He was also a veteran of World War II.
He is survived
by his wife, Jean, son Jim, a member of the WPGA Executive
Committee, and two daughters, Jane and Susan, both of Kalamazoo,
Michigan.
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