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Boyd, J. Robert - 1900-2001

BOYD, COSE, KINGSNORTH, SCHEFFER

Posted By: Linda Vander Linden-Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/6/2011 at 15:57:28

J. Robert Boyd, 101, of LeMars died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2001 at Floyd Valley Hospital in LeMars.

Services were held on Saturday, Aug. 11, at First United Methodist Church in LeMars. The Rev. Larry Fett officiated. Burial was at Willow Cemetery near Holly Springs under the direction of the Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home, LeMars.

Mr. Boyd was born July 17, 1900 at Homick, the son of Charles Russell & Frances (Kingsnorth) Boyd. He graduated from Hornick High School in 1919. He attended Iowa State College in Ames. He received his degree in agriculture and animal husbandry in 1926.

He married Mildred Cose on Jan. 30, 1935, in Deloit. The couple farmed on the Boyd family farm near Hornick before moving into Hornick where he became a partner in a trucking and grain business. They moved to Maurice in 1935 and later purchased the Elevator. While living in Maurice, he served on the town council and was involved in the establishment of the Maurice Fire Department. The couple retired and moved to LeMars in 1946. Mildred died Nov. 18, 1977.

He married Evelyn Scheffer of Califon, NJ. on Feb. 9, 1980. The couple wintered in Florida and summered in Baudette, MN. Evelyn died Oct. 17, 1987. He returned to LeMars in 1998.

Mr. Boyd was a member of the United States Trap Shooting Team that traveled to Europe in 1956 and competed in the World Team Championships and Individual Championships. The American Team won the World Championship in 1956. He was a three time World International Champion, winning in 1952 in Havana, Cuba and 1956 and 1959 in Mexico City. He once held the record for the most consecutive 16 yard targets broken and one of the few individuals to have shot over 100,000 registered targets.

He was a member of Iowa State Trapshooter's Association, Amateur Trapshooting Association of America, First United Methodist Church and a 32nd Degree Mason. He was a member of the former Giblem Lodge, 322, now known as Floyd Lodge 537. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and trapshooting.

Surviuvors include a daughter and her husband, Shirley & Wayne Ostlund of Baudette; a son and his wife, John & Roma of LeMars; 7 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; 15 great-great-grandchildren; two stepchildren, Bus Scheffer and his wife Elsie and Mickey Kean and their families, all of New Jersey; a brother and his wife, Charles & Cordelia Boyd of Maurice; and two sisters-in-law, Opal Hansen of Denison and Bernice Robinson of Danbury.

Sioux County Capital, August 16, 2001.


 

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