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Saturday, February 8, 2025
12:00 - 3:00 pm (Central time)
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Starts at 3:30 pm (Central time)
A memorial service for Walter W. Poimboeuf, III (Tré), 72, will be held on Saturday, February 8, 2025 from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the banquet room at Big Zach’s Place, 223 Main Street, Logansport, Louisiana 71049. An inurnment will be held at 3:30 p.m. at OE Price Cemetery in Logansport, Louisiana.
Tré was born in Shreveport in 1952 and lived in New Orleans until 1964. He attended six schools, starting in New Orleans, then Logansport, and off to an Indonesian oil camp, followed by Brent school in the Philippines. In 1966 the family moved to Singapore where he attended Singapore American School for the 66/67 year. This is where his love of motorcycles led to him joining a teenage motor-scooter club known as the Banshees. There he acquired his nickname “Lead” after falling off the back of a scooter and landing like a sack of lead. From then on, he signed his poetry and writing with nom-de-plume, “Lead”. Returning to the US he finished his freshman year at Logansport High School and then started his sophomore year at Mansfield High School, where he met his first steady girlfriend, Jill Hardin (now Garner). He graduated from MHS in 1970.
His first job was working as a handy man for his grandfather, Dr. WW Poimboeuf, and uncle, Dr. Gene (CE) Poimboeuf at Pleasant Hill Hospital, he then followed his father to Israel and worked as a roustabout in the Sinai Oil Fields where he survived an oil tank explosion that killed one coworker. Deciding that roustabout work wasn’t a good fit, Tré returned to the US and enrolled at Louisiana Tech studying theater, literature, and aviation. At Tech he became a Disk Jockey on KLPI taking his on-air name Tré Wallace. Taking a long break from school, he worked as a DJ on WDDT, Greenville MS. He worked various other jobs, and after a short marriage became a confirmed bachelor. While on a survey crew with Russell Engineering in Logansport he uncovered the original Texas/Louisiana Last Republic of Texas International Boundary Marker on LA 765 where the crew cleared and laid out the present memorial site.
Tré returned to Tech to complete his BS in Computer Science in 1984. Specializing in the Smalltalk programming language, he coded and taught, primarily as an independent contractor to many industries, including medical and banking for 40 years, working across the US in states including Wisconsin, North Carolina, New Jersey, Minnesota, Michigan, Texas, and overseas in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, then back to Louisiana where he retired in Logansport in 2015.
Tré loved driving fast cars, his favorite was a baby blue Chevy 68 Malibu he named “Bill.” An avid motorcyclist, bowler, golfer, and bicyclist. He won many bowling competitions and biked in many charity road races. He was a Boy Scout. He played and coached Little League baseball in Logansport and was a lifelong New York Yankees fan. He hiked and whitewater rafted. His most cherished memory of an adventure was rafting the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon during the high-water summer of 1984.
Tré spent his final six months with his brother, Michael, in Logansport and rekindled his friendship with Jill, his girlfriend from MHS. Jill was with Tré on his last day, and Michael by his side that night when he left his earthy bonds.
He is preceded in death by his father, Walter W. Poimboeuf, Jr.; mother, Lynn A. Poimboeuf; niece, Jessica Poimboeuf and brother-in-law, Larry Neckar. Left to cherish his memory are his sister, Kathy (Poimboeuf) Neckar of Grecia, Costa Rica; two brothers, Michael Poimboeuf (Ann-Margaret Moyer) of San Mateo, California and Tim Poimboeuf of Victorville, California; nieces and nephews, Drew, Cris, and Johnny Neckar, Michelle (Poimboeuf) O’Dowd, Anthony, Griffin and Owen Poimboeuf, Simeon (Poimboeuf) Kulp, and Eric Miller and friends, Jill (Hardin) Garner, Stephen Finch and Catherine Stevens.
Tré wrote these words in 1989:
Thoreau did write his Walden.
Charriere his Papillon.
Shakespeare spake dramatic verse.
Rod McKuen’s lines stay young.
Ben Franklin scribed Poor Richard’s,
and Poe his Annabelle Lee.
with all these great recordings,
what writings left for me?
I could write of nature’s glory.
I could dwell on my escapes.
I could speak a tragic comedy,
or free verse might be my trade,
I could even scribble an almanac,
or just glorify my loves.
Yet each has been discussed before
by scholars or by fools
and naught seems left for me to say
save:
“Love life and not be cruel.”
LEAD
In lieu of flowers, the family suggest memorials may be made in the memory of Tré Poimboeuf to OE Price Cemetery, P.O. Box 460, Logansport, LA 71049.
Saturday, February 8, 2025
12:00 - 3:00 pm (Central time)
Big Zach’s Place
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Starts at 3:30 pm (Central time)
O. E. Price Cemetery
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