J. Robert Boyd 1900-2001

BOYD KINGSNORTH COSE

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 7/13/2011 at 17:18:36

Sioux City Journal
9 August 2001

LE MARS, Iowa -- J. Robert Boyd, 101, of Le Mars died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2001, at Floyd Valley Hospital in Le Mars.

Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church in Le Mars, with the Rev. Larry Fett officiating. Burial will be in Willow Cemetery, near Holly Springs, Iowa. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. Friday, with the family present at 6 p.m., a prayer service at 7 p.m. and a Masonic service at 7:30 p.m., all at Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home in Le Mars. Visitation will resume one hour prior to the service Friday at the church.

Mr. Boyd was born July 17, 1900, in Hornick, Iowa, the son of Charles Russell and Frances (Kingsnorth) Boyd. He graduated from Hornick High School in 1919. He attended Iowa State College in Ames, Iowa, where he was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity and Alpha Zeta Agriculture Honorary Fraternity. He received his degree in agriculture and animal husbandry in 1926.

He married Mildred Cose on Jan. 30, 1935, in Deloit, Iowa. 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, Iowa, 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. They retired and moved to Le Mars in 1946. His wife died Nov. 18, 1977.

He married Evelyn Scheffer of Califon, N.J. on Feb. 9, 1980. The couple wintered in Florida and summered in Baudette, Minn. His wife died Oct. 12, 1987. He returned to Le Mars in 1998.

He 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.

Survivors include a daughter and her husband, Shirley and Wayne Ostlund of Baudette; a son and his wife, John and Roma of Le Mars; seven grandchildren, Lee Anna York, Sherrie Biggs, Dick Ostlund, Cindy Peterson, Bob Boyd, Rona Peterson and Cena Barber; 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 and Cordelia Boyd of Maurice; and two sisters-in-law, Opal Hansen of Denison, Iowa, and Bernice Robinson of Danbury, Iowa.

He was preceded in death by a daughter, Virginia Lorenzen; two brothers, Homer and Jesse; and a sister, Doris Stanton.