Elza Alise Olga Boass Was Employed as Housekeeper

Elza Alise Olga (Dembergs) Boass, a former longtime resident of Cedar Gardens, Natick, died Friday, April 15, at the Franklin Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Franklin. She was 95.

Born in Mazirbe, Latvia, on Jan. 5, 1910, on the family farm on the Baltic Sea, she was the daughter of the late Gothards and Izabella (Silberhand) Dembergs. She moved to the United States from Germany 55 years ago.

She was employed as a domestic for many years in the house cleaning industry prior to her retirement.

She was the former wife of the late Leonhards Boass, who died in 1987. She and her young family left Latvia and escaped to Germany during World War II, and in 1949 gained refugee in America and settled in Sherborn where she raised her daughter and son.

Mrs. Boass leaves a daughter, Agna Boass of Chapel Hill, N.C.; a son, Andris Boass, and his wife, Susan Boass, of Hopkinton; four grandchildren, Heidi Marquedant of Hopkinton, Erik Boass of Edgartown, Christopher Calingaert of Culver City, Calif., and Brian Calingaert of Raleigh, N.C., and five great-grandchildren, James and Holly Marquedant of Hopkinton and Benjamin, Andrew and Elizabeth Calingaert of Culver City, Calif.

Funeral services will be private.

Memorial donations may be made to the charity of one's choice.

To send the family an expression of sympathy, visit the on-line register book at www.dyer-lakefuneralhome.com.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Dyer-Lake Funeral Home, 161 Commonwealth avenue, Village of Attleboro Falls, North Attleboro.