Jason Niblett

At Northstar Promenade, 1990

Jason Craig Niblett
aka Jay Craig Niblett
25 Sep 1952 - 05 Jun 1997

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Obituary

A funeral Mass will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 7, 1997, in St. James Catholic Church in Vancouver, Wash., for Jason Craig Niblett, who died June 5 at age 44.

Mr. Niblett was born Sept. 25, 1952, in Missoula, Mont. He lived in Vancouver for 27 years. He was an industrial repairman.

Survivors include his mother, Cleo Shaules of Huntley, Mont.; brothers, Robert and Jack, both of the Vancouver area; sisters, Lynn Kyle and Karen Krkosa, both of Warden, Mont.; and special companion, Edward Takitch of Vancouver.

The family suggests remembrances to Hospice Southwest. Vancouver Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.^[1]

Jason C. Niblett
Vancouver, WA
Jason Craig Niblett, 44, who had been chief executive officer of Boomsnub, an electroplating company east of Hazel Dell, died at home Thursday, June, 1997, of AIDS.

Mr. Niblett was born Sept. 25, 1952, in Missoula, Mont., and lived in Vancouver the last 27 years.

Survivors include his mother, Cleo Shaules of Huntley, Mont.; two brothers, Robert and Jack, both of the Vancouver area; two sisters, Lynn and Karen, both of Montana; and special friend, Edward Takitch of Vancouver.

There will be a vigil at 7:30 tonight at St. James Catholic Church. A funeral Mass will begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the church. The casket will be open until 5 tonight and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at Vancouver Funeral Chapel.^[2]

Boomsnub CEO dies at age 44 after long illness
The chief executive of Boomsnub Corp. died Thursday.

Jason C. Niblett, 44, of Vancouver, died at his home of complications related to AIDS.

Niblett's long illness became crucial to the outcome of a federal case that ended in March 1996, following an indictment of the company and its three top officials on eight counts of environmental crimes.

Plea bargains were struck for Boomsnub and two of the officials for the crimes involving the illegal dumping and storage of hazardous wastes at 7608 N.E. 47th Ave., the former location of the chrome-plating company, now listed as a federal Superfund site.

But U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Bryan dismissed all charges against Niblett, based on a letter from a Portland doctor that Niblett's physical condition had deteriorated to the point he was no longer able to care for himself.

The company now plates industrial parts at a new plant at 3611 N.E. 68th St. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency continues to monitor the chromium-laced plume stemming from the company's old site.^[3]