BOYD, Ethel Pearl (EVANS)

BOYD, EVANS, LITTLE, POWERS, DINGMAN, WEST

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 6/29/2016 at 04:56:22

Obituary ~ Ethel Pearl (Evans) Boyd
March 31, 1901 ~ September 24, 1998

Ethel Pearl Boyd, daughter of Elijah J. and Bertha E. Little Evans, was born in Eden Township, Leon on March 31, 1901, and died Sept. 24, 1998, at the Lamoni Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Lamoni where she had lived since April. She was 97.

Mrs. Boyd had lived in her own home until she was 91when she moved to the Leon Care Center before moving to Lamoni.

She married James Alfred Boyd on May 17, 1950.

She was a member of the Leon Presbyterian Church.

Mrs. Boyd liked to collect and show buttons and was a member of the Button Club until her eyesight failed so she could no longer participate in club activities. She also enjoyed working in her yard and collecting antiques.

She was a loving person, who was always ready to lend a helping hand. She helped her sister, May, raise their brothers and sisters, James, Lois, Carl and Clarence after their parents died.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; five sisters, Minnie, Hattie, Vesta, Florence and May; two brothers, Roy and Raymond and nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Boyd is survived by three stepdaughters, Nettie Powers of Omaha, Neb., Helen Dingman of Lakview and Marie West and her husband, Raymond West, of Portland, Ore.; three stepsons James Boyd and his wife, Beatrice Boyd, of Sanger, Texas, Warren Boyd and his wife, Nadine Boyd, of Leon and William Boyd and his wife, Betty Boyd, of Earlham; stepgrandchildren; great-stepgrandchildren; great-great-stepgrandchildren; nieces and nephews; and other relatives and friends.

Funeral services for Mrs. Boyd were Sept. 28, 1998, at Slade-O’Donnell Funeral Home in Leon, the Rev. Jack DePond officiating. Organist and soloist Vicki Saxton played and sang Going Down the Valley and How Great Thou Art.

Casket bearers were Danny Boyd, Terry Boyd, Warren Lee Boyd, Bill Evans, Carl Evans and Clarence Evans. Interment was in the Leon Cemetery.

Transcription by Sara Rose Joan LeFleur, June of 2016