Amos Henry Boyster 1882-1961

BOYSTER, HILL, TWITO, STEM, DAVIDSON, DRAKE, JOHNSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 9/27/2013 at 00:15:52

Boyster Rites To Be Held on Tuesday
Funeral services for Amos Henry Boyster, 78, who died at Holy Family Hospital Saturday [April 15, 1961], will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Sternborg-Reese Funeral Chapel, the Rev. William R. Noland officiating. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the Sternborg-Reese Funeral Home from today until the time of services.

Mr. Boyster was born Aug. 2, 1882, in Richwood, Mo., son of Mr. and Mrs. William Boyster. He received his education in Richwood schools. He was married to Minnie Hill in St. Louis, Mo., in 1910. The couple moved to Estherville in 1929. Mrs. Boyster died in 1936, and Mr. Boyster moved back to Missouri two years later. He returned to Estherville a year ago.

He was a member of the First Methodist Church of Estherville.

Mr. Boyster is survived by one son, Orville of Estherville, a daughter, Mrs. Parnell (Algetha) Twito of Estherville and three grandchildren. Also surviving are three brothers, Joseph of St. Clair, Mo., Wallace of Pana, Ill., and Carl of the state of Washington, and four sisters, Mrs. Herman Stem of Mesa, Ariz., Mrs. Ava Davidson and Mrs. Nellie Drake of San Diego, Calif., and Mrs. Estelle Johnson of St. Clair, Mo.

His parents, wife, brother and two sisters preceded him in death. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, April 17, 1961)