Nellie Boyd

BOYD, WOODRUFF, BENNETT, GOODWIN, CRONE, HARRISON, BIRNEY, DIXON, BENNETT, PARTINGTON

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Date: 6/13/2009 at 15:12:33

Muscatine Journal, Nov. 21, 2006

Services: 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov 22, Stacy-Lewis Home for Funeral and Cremation Services, Columbus Junction. Visitation: 4-6 p.m. today, funeral home.

COLUMBUS JUNCTION, Iowa - Nellie Boyd, 88, Columbus Junction, died Sunday, Nov. 19, 2006, at Colonial Manor Care Center, Columbus Junction.

The Rev. Cathy Whitlatch will officiate. Casket bearers are Doug Boyd, Edwin Verrips, Mike Williams, Wilbur Tompkins, Rusty Patterson and Joshua Goodwin. Burial will be at Indian Creek.

A memorial has been established for the Methodist Church. Online condolences may be left for the Boyd family at www.lewisfuneralhomes.com.

Mrs. Boyd was born Jan. 25, 1918, in Wapello, the daughter of James Laughlin and Estella Margaret Woodruff Bennett. She married Joe Everette Boyd on Jan. 29, 1935, in Muscatine. He preceded her in death in June 1983.

She and her husband moved to rural Columbus Junction from Conesville in 1950. The farm house was really in bad shape, but they managed to make it into a working farm in a few years. She enjoyed farm life. Her favorite pastimes were gardening and planting flowers. She later took up painting and had several painting awards to attest to her talent. She loved to raise sheep and a few half Arabian horses, of which her daughter, Sharon, loved to ride. She was a great animal lover and always had Siamese cats around the house. She was also quite the antique collector and acquired many lovely pieces of antique furniture and china. Antique shoppping was in her blood. She loved old houses and barns, especially those built by her father. She was always family oriented and would welcome everyone into her home and insist that they stay for dinner or supper. Everyone enjoyed her cooking. All of her relatives and friends would sit around the table after a great meal and play "Penny Ante." Those times were good. She was a cook at the Epicurean Supper Club in the late 1950's. She also cooked at Colonial Manor Care Center for awhile.

Survivors include her children, James Patrick Boyd and wife Judy of Grandview and Sharon Eileen Boyd of Burlington; three grandchildren, Stanley Joe Boyd of Lafayette, Colo., Kelly Jo Goodwin of Fruitland and Tammera Jean Crone of Bozeman, Mont; and a great-grandchild, Joshua James Goodwin.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a son, Rodger Boyd in November 1935; three sisters, Geneva Harrison, Cleda Birney and Ursula Dixon; a brother, Paul Bennett; two half-brothers, Clifford Bennett and Estle Bennett; and a half-sister, Jenny Partington.