Daniel H. Boerem, 102

Daniel Hewitt Boerem died at home in Montauk on Friday. He was 102 and had been in excellent health until about a year and a half ago.

Mr. Boerem was an electrician for the Lily-Tulip Cup corporation for 28 years until its College Point, Queens, location was closed in 1965. Two years later he moved to Montauk and opened his own electrical contracting business, having been encouraged to do so by his brother-in-law, Edward Golden Sr., who owned Montauk’s Oceanside Motel. In his leisure time Mr. Boerem enjoyed hunting, fishing, and boating.

He was born in Whitestone, Queens, on Dec. 15, 1914, to the former Anna Hewitt and Daniel H. Boerem. He grew up in Whitestone. He served as a sergeant in the military police from 1942 to 1945, during World War II, in North Africa and Italy. On June 7, 1941, in Queens, he and the former Gloria Jean Weiss married. She died in 2009.

A son, Daniel R. Boerem of Montauk, five grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren survive Mr. Boerem. He did not want a funeral and his ashes are to be dispersed at sea, as his wife’s were. The family has suggested memorial donations to the Montauk Fire Department, 12 Flamingo Avenue, Montauk 11954.