BOYCE, Irene (1906-1923)

BOYCE, ROESHART, ROBINSON, SEBERN GUNYON, COLLINS

Posted By: Elaine Harrington (email)
Date: 9/9/2006 at 05:58:30

From the Opinion Tribune dated 08-01-1923:

Irene Boyce, 16 year old daugher of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Boyce, residing north of Glenwood, died about noon Saturday from bullet wounds inflicted by Everett Vallier on Wednesday of last week when he went to the Boyce home firing the fatal shot into the body of the girl and wounding her mother, after which he drove down the road a short distance and sent a bullet through his own brain.

The bullet which it was thought at first had lodged in the hip proved to have glanced upward penetrating the abdomen and surgeons' skill was of no avail.

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon from the Community Baptist church in West Oak, Rev. Joseph Stille officiating taking for his text Rev. 21:1-4. Music was furnished by a quartet composed of Mesdames F. V. Kemp and S. M. Criswell and Messrs. E. R. Herrick and Joy Parker with Mrs. Clyde Rhoads at the piano. The pallbearers were Edith Slaughter, Hilka Milsap, Hilda Stille, Frances Brett, Alma Stille and Lydia Stille.

The following is the life sketch furnished by the pastor:

Irene, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Boyce, was born Sept. 23, 1906 and came to her untimely death July 28, 1923, at the age of 16 years, 10 months and 5 days. Those left to mourn her departure are her father and mother, 5 brothers and 3 sisters. One brother and one sister preceded her in death. Her brothers are Ernest, Elmer, Robert, Ferdinand and Charlie; her sisters, Mrs. Goldie White, Mrs. Sylvia Benedict and Esther, and a large number of other relatives including her grandfathers, R. L. Boyce and John Sebern. A host of friends mourn her untimely death.

Relatives from a distance present at the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Philip Roeshart, Dixon, Nebr.; Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Boyce, Mrs. John Boyce and John Sebern of Council Bluffs; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gunyon and Mrs. Alice Collins of Bellevue, Nebr.