A joint memorial service for Mr. Black and his wife of 70 years Florence Black will be held on August 18, 2018, at 2 p.m., at Tiger Place, 2400 Bluff Creek Drive, in Columbia.
Mr. Black was born in Portland, Oregon, and was a graduate of Oregon State University. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II as a member of the Tenth Mountain Division and later as a member of the Office of Counterintelligence, the precursor to the CIA. After discharge, he worked as a fisheries biologist for the fish and wildlife service, a division of the US Department of Interior, in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.
In March 1948 he married Florence Regine Boyer. She died on May 11, 2018. The couple retired to Friday Harbor, Washington, in the mid 1970s and lived there until they moved to Columbia.
Survivors include: a son, David W. Black, and daughter-in-law, Lee (Lillian) Wilkins Black, both of Columbia; two grandchildren, Miranda D. Atkinson, of Eugene, Oregon, and Walter A. Black, of Boston; and one great grandchild, Parker Atkinson, also of Eugene, Oregon. A son, G. Michael Black, died in 2013.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.
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