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Daniel John Boyer October 7, 1943 - January 27, 2025 Daniel Boyer was born in Indianapolis, IN, where his father was the director of the Lutheran orphanage. Dan's family moved to Omro, WI, in 1944. He attended grade school there through 8th grade and then attended and graduated from high school at Concordia College in Milwaukee while it was still a "gymnasium," a prep school offering both high school and college programs for young men preparing to pursue church work. He then was trained as a parochial school teacher at Concordia River Forest in Chicago. He accepted a call to teach in Norfolk, Nebraska, for a two-year period. Subsequently, he transitioned from teaching to the business world. In 1972-1973 he returned briefly to teaching and was a public school teacher in the Glenview area of Chicago. He then returned to the business world. One of the companies he worked for in the Chicago area was White Way Sign Company. He worked his way up in the company, eventually becoming vice president. In 1979 he left the Chicago area and moved to Grand Island, Nebraska, to run Kallego Industries, another sign company, as president. In 1986, he settled in the Palm Springs area as a self-employed business tax accountant. Dan had a strong faith in Christ. He was always active in church and ministry, several times stepping away from his business career to work as a DCE-equivalent in several churches. He was a founding member of Peace Lutheran Church in Palm Desert. His last ministry, which he dearly loved, was facilitating a Bible study at a prison in southern California through the TUMI WORLD IMPACT ministry program. Dan is survived by his five nephews, Steve (Rachel), Joel, Brent (Lily), Brad (Chie) and Barth (Melanie), his sister-in-law, Delores, and many grand-nephews and -nieces. He is preceded in death by his parents, Herman and Lydia, and his older brother, Richard. He will be remembered as a man of prayer who faithfully prayed for family, friends, church and country. But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who by the power that enables Him to bring everything under His control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like His glorious body. Phil 3:20-21 Gift memorials may be made to: PEACE LUTHERAN, PALM DESERT Memo line: Daniel Boyer Memorial 74200 Country Club Drive Palm Desert, CA 92260 TUMI WORLD IMPACT Memo line: Daniel Boyer Memorial to Prison Ministry PO Box 80507 City of Industry, CA 91716-8507