Memorial service for Micron's Steve Appleton will be Feb. 23

Micron Technology CEO Steve Appleton compares the company’s 200mm and 300mm chip wafers at the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce Legislative Forum in 2005. It was one of his last speeches before a large business audience in Boise. The company was phasing out the smaller wafers, some of which were manufactured in Boise, in favor of the more economical larger ones. In 2009, Micron closed its 200mm plant in Boise, resulting in about 2,000 people losing their jobs in the Treasure Valley.

The memorial service for Steve Appleton, the Micron Technology Inc. chairman and CEO who was killed Friday, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, at Taco Bell Area at Boise State University.

The company also announced that two memorial funds have been set up in Appleton's name with Make-A-Wish Foundation and the Boise State University Foundation. The Micron Foundation has donated $25,000 to each of these funds in Appleton's name.

Appleton died Friday when the small airplane he was piloting crashed at the Boise Airport.

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