Honey Lou (Christiansen) Boyum left us on November 18, 2021 to sing with the big bands in heaven. She was 94 years old. Honey Lou was the youngest of 8 children born to her Danish immigrant parents. The family settled in Omaha where she graduated from Omaha North High School in 1945. After graduating, she went to work at Carmen’s Department Store near the Orpheum Theatre and, at the end of the work week, would buy a ticket to see the big bands and singers perform live on stage.
Around that time, a young man returned from his service in WWII and moved into the neighborhood. One day, he caught a monarch butterfly and walked over to give it to the pretty girl across the street. His name was Forest and, in 1948, he and Honey Lou were married. The couple eventually settled in Lincoln to raise their 2 daughters and to start their business, Forest’s Furnace and Air Conditioning, which they operated together until Forest’s retirement in 1997.
Honey Lou’s joys in life were her family, her house (which she stubbornly refused to leave for 55 years), visits from her nieces, nephews and neighbors, the birds in her backyard, and the stray cats who, over the years, showed up on her doorstep somehow knowing that she would love them, too. Her favorite “room” in the house was the front porch and, if you Google Map the house address, you’ll see her sitting on it, enjoying the sun on a lovely spring day.
Although she was a wonderful wife, mother, business partner and pie baker extraordinaire, anyone who heard her sing knew that Honey Lou had perhaps missed her calling. Her love of music was evident in the extensive collection of recordings that she listened to up to the day she left us. And, if you were there, you may have seen her sitting front and center at the Michael Bublé and Tony Bennett concerts.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Forest, and all of her seven siblings.
She will be sorely missed by her daughters and sons-in-law Kristine (Jim) Palmer, Julie (Kurt) Peterson, step son Dick (Sandra) Boyum, sister-in-law Virginia Christiansen, and many nieces and nephews including Jim and Jo Stork, Sharon McGuire, Janice Orr, David, Tom and Chris Christiansen and Stacy Mainelli.
Her daughters will be forever grateful for the loving care given to Honey Lou by the staff at Windcrest, Tabitha Home Health and Visiting Angels.
Contributions in her honor may be made to Capitol Humane Society, Lincoln, Nebraska.
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