Earnest Boyce (1986)

BOYCE, BUNNELL, GREEN, JENKS, STRINGHAM

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 3/22/2006 at 22:18:26

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, February 4, 1987

EARNEST BOYCE, Ann Arbor, Mi

Earnest Boyce of Ann Arbor, Mi. died at his home Dec. 6, at age 94. He was born at the Cedar Lawn Farm northwest of Winterset in Douglas township July 11, 1892, the eldest of eight children of Marcus and Grace Boyce.

He was graduated from the then Iowa State College at Ames in 1917 with a bachelor's degree in engineering. He served in World War I in France and was discharged in 1919 as a captain. On Sept. 21, 1919 he married Elsie Green in Nebraska. A son James preceded his father in death.

Mr. Boyce was on the staff of Kansas University at Lawrence from 1920 - 1941. In 1930 he received the Professional Civil Engineering degree from Iowa State and in 1932 graduated from Harvard University with a master of Science in Engineering/Sanitary engineering. During ensuing years he was honored with several professional awards.

In 1944 he joined the engineering faculty of University of Michigan. When he retired in 1962 he was chairman of the department of civil engineering. As a consultant for World Health Organization and Pan American Organization he had many foreign assignments.

Surviving in addition to his widow are three sisters: Ruth Stringham of Lawrence, Ks., Alma Bunnell of Cedar Falls, Ia, Bertha Jenks of Palo Alto, Ca., three grandsons and four great grandchildren.

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