Goldie F. Boyd

BOYD, BAILEY, SEARS

Posted By: Mark Bailey (email)
Date: 1/4/2006 at 18:23:32

MASON CITY - Goldie F. Boyd, 88, of 501 S. Kentucky Ave., died Sunday (Nov. 20, 2005) at the Heritage Care Center. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the First United Methodist Church, 119 S Georgia Ave., with the Rev. Jim Stiles officiating.
Interment will be in Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., and continue at the church one hour
before the service.
Memorials may be given to Hospice of North Iowa.
Goldie was born April 1, 1917, in Sheffield, Iowa, the daughter of Harrison and Mary Rosella (Sears) Bailey.
Her family moved to Mason City at an early age where she graduated from Mason City High School.
Goldie married James G. Boyd July 19, 1936, in Mason City.
She cooked at Highland Park Golf Course then worked as a clerk at Grupp's Grocery Store for 25 years. She retired in 1979.
Goldie was a member of the First United Methodist Church, was involved in the prayer chain at the church and particularly enjoyed her class reunions.
Goldie is survived by
a daughter, Donna Jones and husband, Denzil, of Mason City
son, Glenn E. Boyd and wife, Irene, of Woodbury, Minn.
daughter, Sandra Wyborny of Ankeny
son, William C. Boyd and wife, Jolene, of Mason City daughter, Cookie Edwards and husband, Lon, of Princeton, Ind.
seven grandsons:
David Jones
Rick Wyborny
Mark Wyborny
Dallas Jones
James Boyd
Brant Boyd
Benjamin Boyd

14 great-grandchildren;
four great-great-grandchildren;
and many nieces and nephews.
Goldie was preceded in death by her parents,
husband, James;
grandsons, Scott Wyborny and Stephen Boyd;
six brothers and three sisters.
Arrangements by Major Erickson Funeral Home, (641) 423-0924.
www.majorericksonfuneralhome.com
Published in the Globe Gazette from 11/21/2005 - 11/23/2005.