James D. "Jake" Bomar^[1]

1914 - 2004  (89 years)

• Name	James D. "Jake" Bomar
  Born	13 Sep 1914	Bell Buckle, Bedford County, Tennessee
  Gender	Male
  Census	1930	District 4, Bedford County, Tennessee   [2]
  Died	9 Apr 2004	Mariner Health   [3]
  Buried	11 Apr 2004	Waters-Large Cemetery, Cocke County, Tennessee
  Person ID	I95898	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	24 Feb 2016

  
  

  Father	Bibb Daniel Bomar,   b. 28 Apr 1878, Bedford County, Tennessee ,   d. 19 Apr 1944, Bedford County, Tennessee  (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Ethel Beulah Laughinghouse,   b. Abt 1884, Tennessee ,   d. 14 Oct 1955, Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tennessee  (Age ~ 71 years)
  Family ID	F58259	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Elsie Bernice Matthews,   b. Abt 1927, Tennessee  (Age ~ 97 years)
  Children	1. Thomas Bryan Bomar,   d. INFANT   2. Barbara Bomar   3. Terri Bomar   4. Jennifer Bomar   5. Rita Bomar
  Family ID	F34966	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Buried - 11 Apr 2004 - Waters-Large Cemetery, Cocke County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S104] Cocke County, Tennessee, and its People, Cocke County Heritage Book Committee, (Walsworth Publishing, 1992), 168. [S112] Census, 1930. Name: James D Bomar Event: Census Event Date: 1930 Event Place: District 04, Bedford, Tennessee Gender: Male Age: 15 Marital Status: Single Race: White Birthplace: Tennessee Estimated Birth Year: 1915 Immigration Year: Relationship to Head of Household: Son Father's Birthplace: Tennessee Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee Enumeration District Number: 0006 Family Number: 60 Sheet Number and Letter: 3B Line Number: 51 NARA Publication: T626, roll 2233 Film Number: 2341967 Digital Folder Number: 4548147 Image Number: 00503 Household Gender Age Parent Bib B?Mo* M 52 Parent Ethel B?Mo* F 42 Bill P B?Mo* M 19 James D Bomar M 15 Bryan Bomar M 10 [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 9 Apr 2004. James D. "Jake" Bomar, age 89, of Cosby, TN. passed away at Mariner Health on Friday, April 9, 2004 He was born to Bibb Daniel and Ethel Laughinghouse Bomar, September 13, 1914, in Bell Buckle, Bedford County, TN He worked at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL during World War II, and moved to Oak Ridge, TN where he worked for Union Carbide from 1945 until his retirement in 1977. He moved to Cosby, TN in 1979 and was a charter member of Trinity Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents; an infant son, James Daniel; a brother Bill Pearson; a sister, Beulah Messick, all of Bell Buckle, and a grandson, James Kevin Ridley of Knoxville. He is survived by his wife, Elsie Bomar of Cosby; brother, Thomas Bryan Bomar and his wife Peggy of Knoxville; daughters and sons-in-law, Barbara and Walter Geering of Knoxville; Terri and Phillip Turner of Bowling Green, KY; Jennifer and Michael Maginnis of Jasper, GA; Rita and Eugene Orick of Cosby; and Linda Glass of Knoxville; grandchildren, Lee Ridley of Knoxville, Kara and Tom Compton of Lexington, KY; Linsey and Daniel Rogers of Hendersonville, TN. and William Orick of Knoxville; and great grandson Jacob Daniel Compton. He is also survived by his loving church family and all his special friends at Mariner Health and Hospice who took such good care of him. Serving as pallbearers will be Tom Bomar, Rick Bomar, Tom Compton, Daniel Rogers, William Orick, and Duaine Click. Honorary pallbearers are members of the senior adult men's Sunday School class at Trinity Baptist Church and Gary Pearson. Funeral service will be at 8:00 p.m. Saturday at the Manes Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Tiger Gullett and Rev. Kenny Lloyd officiating. Interment will be at 2:00 p.m. Sunday at the Waters-Large Cemetery. The family will friends from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. prior to the service. Manes Funeral Home is in charge.