William Earl Boyd (March 24, 1942)
Funeral services for William
Earl Boyd, 39 (my father
was 8 at the time), fatally
injured in a Portland
accident Friday, will be at
the Christman Mortuary
Thursday afternoon at 2:30.
the Rev. H R Cederberg
will officiate and burial
will be at Mount Angeles
Cemetery,
For many years a resident of
Clallam County, Mr. Boyd
had been employed at the Northwest
Copper and Sheet
Metal Works in Portland for
the past year. He was
injured early Friday morning
in a accident at the metal
works and passed away at 3
o'clock Friday afternoon in
a Portland hospital.
William Earl Boyd was born
March 28, 1902 in
sunnycreek, IA and came to
Port Angeles with his
father, J W Boyd, his brother
and sister in 1904.
He grew to manhood and attended
schools at Mount
Pleasant. For many years Mr.
Boyd was employed by the
county road department as
an operator of road
equipment. His marriage to
Sylvia Rhodes of Sheridan
OR took place Oct 22, 1927
and two children were born
to the union.
Surviving are his widow, Sylvia
Body (Correction -
BOYD) [thus]; two children,
Roger Rhodes Boyd and
William Fred Boyd (My father);
his father and
step-mother Mr. and Mrs. J
W Boyd of Eden Valley; one
brother Frank Boyd of Port
Angeles, and a sister, Mrs.
Nellie Mooney of Seattle;
a step-brother Ben Epperson
of Port Angeles and several
nieces and nephews.
The East Moreland Mortuary
of Portland was in charge
in that city and shipped the
remains to Port Angeles
for funeral services here.
Mike Boyd n7dkq2@yahoo.com
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