Sonny Boyer Crossed Fatal Path With Hurricane Andrew."Sonny" Boyer planned to return to Anna to visit last week's Union County Fair. Hurricane Andrew intervened in those plans. Mr. Boyer was killed when Andrew roared through south Florida last week. National Guard personnel discovered his body in an apartment complex ravaged in the storm. Mr. Boyer, 67, lived in the Pinewood Villa Retirement Village at Cutler Ridge in the Miami area. His home was located near Homestead, one of the areas ravaged hardest by Hurricane Andrew-already billed as the worst natural in American history. The storm struck at 6 a.m. Monday, Aug. 24. By the National Guard at 7:30 p.m. that day, his brother Paul of Flora, said. Paul and another brother Don, also of Flora, traveled to Florida to pick up Sonny's belongings and take care of final arrangements. What they saw and experienced defied imagination. Andrew left behind a 40 to 50 mile swath of utter destruction. In Paul's Boyer's words, those who lived through the hurricane must have experienced "hell on earth." "I can't imagine how many of them survived. I can't imagine the fear they must have felt," Paul said Tuesday during a telephone interview from his home in Flora. "It looked like a war zone." "My gosh," Paul remembered thinking while he was in Florida, "How could anybody live through it?" Those who did, he said, "thought they were gone." Sonny Boyer's home was straight in Andrew's path. "He was right in the heart of it, Paul said. And why did Sonny Boyer stay at home, instead of evacuating? Paul surmises that his brother had experienced hurricanes before-Sonny had lived in Florida for 30 years-and decided to ride out Andrew, but not in a defiant sort of way. This storm proved to be different, though. "Nobody ever expected one the magnitude of that one," Paul reflected. There also was the matter of Sonny Boyer's heath. He'd had heart problems. A pathologist told Paul afterwards that his brother was "very very ill." The exertion of leaving may have been too much. Other people stayed in the Pinewood Villa and safely rode out Hurricane Andrew. A fate would have it, when Andrew and Sonny Boyer crossed paths; the moment was a fatal one. Mr. Boyer was a retired appliance repairman in Miami. He moved to Florida in 1954.