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More than 250 friends, ancestors associates and association leaders aggregate in Newport Beach on Wednesday to bless the activity of Jim de Boom, a longtime Daily Pilot columnist, accident planner, association advance and above academy lath member.

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De Boom died Feb. 29 at his Palm Desert home of complications accompanying to academician seizures. He was 74.

The anniversary of his life, captivated in the Balboa Pavilion's admirable amphitheater overlooking Newport Harbor, included mementos of one of his favorites: the Angels baseball team. Tables were abounding with Cracker Jack and peanuts.

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De Boom was built-in in 1941 in St. Louis Park, Minn., breadth he additionally was raised. He accelerating from George Williams College in Chicago and USC, after acceptable a accountant marriage, ancestors and adolescent counselor.

In the Newport Beach-Costa Mesa community, he formed for the YMCA and served on the Newport-Mesa Unified Academy District lath from 1983 to 1996.

He additionally was controlling administrator of the Newport-Mesa-Irvine Interfaith Council and was animate in the Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa, which accustomed him this year with the Lifetime Honorary Rotarian award.

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De Boom and his wife, Barbara, additionally ran an event-planning business.

A 1992 Daily Pilot cavalcade on affectation during his service, blue-blooded "De Booms consistently do a bang-up job," accustomed the brace as a activating duo who got things done. They were possibly the best "effective affiliated aggregation in Orange County," wrote Jim Felton, and instead of accepting a big staff, they acclimated alone a "word processor, two fax machines, a photocopier, four telephones and a ailing Rolodex."

Beginning in the aboriginal 1990s, Jim de Boom wrote the Daily Pilot's Association and Clubs column, which accustomed breadth account clubs and volunteers.

Former Pilot Publisher Tom Johnson acclaimed how de Boom was a decidedly acceptable ability for the newsroom through his all-encompassing Newport-Mesa contacts and adventure ideas.

De Boom knew everyone, Johnson said.

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"Jim was one of our greatest sources anytime at the Daily Pilot," he said. "If article happened in town, we would see him appear up into our building's additional story, into Editorial, in his khakis and his blue, accepted Oxford shirt. Coming beyond the room, he'd say, 'Here's article you guys should analysis out.' ... We begin some of the greatest belief that way."

Lane Calvert formed with de Boom at the Newport-Mesa-Irvine Interfaith Council, amid added ventures.

"He looked at the acceptable in everybody," Calvert said. "Everybody was according to Jim. He was my mentor."

Stacy de Boom-Howard, one of de Boom's daughters, said her ancestor "lived his activity confined for others and he never asked for recognition. He aloof did aggregate he could to accomplish things bigger for anybody else."

Bradley Zint, bradley.zint@latimes.com

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