Joe Boyd

COLORADO CITY RECORD

Joe Boyd of Colorado City died June 8 in a Lubbock hospital. He was 80.

Funeral services were held Saturday at Calvary Baptist Church in Colorado City with Dr. Travis Monday, the Rev. Miller Robinson and Dr. Sammy Elliott officiating. Burial followed in the Colorado City Cemetery.

Mr. Boyd was born in Lometa April 11, 1925 to Thomas Harrison and Julia Isabel Neavitt Boyd. He attended school in Oglesby and served in the United States Navy. He married Marie Kirkland on Nov. 25, 1951 in Westbrook. He retired in 1984 from Tesco. He taught Sunday school at Calvary Baptist Church for 16 years. He was a 32nd degree mason and coached Little League, Pony League and Senior Teenage League baseball. He was a lifetime member of NRA.
He was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Felix Neavitt Boyd.

Survivors include his wife, Marie Boyd of Colorado City; sons, Thomas Edwin Boyd of Colleyville, Jerry Wade Boyd of Colorado City and John Herald Boyd of Dallas; sisters, Minnie Beth Jackson of Tulia, Margaret Yeilding of Gatesville and Tommie Isabel Bennett of Chowchilla, CA.; brother, Jack H. Boyd of Upton, WY.; five grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.