Beaumont Enterprise May 14, 2012
Stella Sue Buck Gamham Boyt, 1915-2012. Sue Boyt passed away at Harbor Hospice Friday, May 11, 2012. A native Beaumonter, she was born, July 19, 1915, the youngest of five children of Thomas E. and Willie M. Hawley Buck. Sue's, father was a painter for the Eastern Texas Electric Company, which provided Beaumonters with street car service, her mother supplemented the family income by selling her delicious homemade cakes and mayonnaise. When Sue was 14, he father died and her mother bought the Clairmont, a boarding house on Liberty Street, as a way to support her family. After Sue graduated from Beaumont High School in 1932, there was no money for college. She worked in an insurance office as an unpaid employee, a common way in those days for a young people to gain work experience. Later she obtained the status as a paid employee at a typewriter firm and then at the Jefferson County Courthouse, making the grand sum of $75.00 a month. top pay for the time. Sue met the love of her life, Harry Garnham, while she was with a date at Troup's Drugstore in downtown Beaumont. After she got home that night, Harry called her and asked her out for both nights the following weekend. Sue and Harry married in 1937. Harry, a native of Pittsburgh, PA, Harry was in Beaumont working for Talbot Rothwell of the Yount-Lee Oil Company, which brought in a new oil field at Spindletop in 1925. Talbot and his wife Mable had been friends of the Granhams in Pittsburg, PA. During World War II, Sue volunteered with the American Women's Voluntary Services, a support group that took on numerous home front tasks. One of her jobs was to deliver messages informing the families of servicemen wounded or killed in action. Harry and Sue had two children, a son Harry Launce and a daughter Susan Louise. In 1953, Harry died suddenly, leaving Sue to rear their children. She made every effort to keep their lives as they had been before, especially continuing tpo spend summers at the beach that she and Harry loved so well, until Hurricane Caria destroyed their house in 1961. Sue was an avid golfer and nearly played every day 18 holes of golf, walking the course. She was one of the founding members of the Women's Golf Association at the Beaumont Country Club. In 1965, Sue married Cecil Boyt, whom she had known since her brothers college days at Texas A&M. They enjoyed nine years of happiness at the 7L Ranch in Devers until Cecil's death in 1974. After his death, Sue continued the legacy of the ranch for her grandchildren for almost 20 years before she returned to Beaumont.
NOTE: The rest of this Bio. can be read on Legacy.com
Stella Sue Buck Gamham Boyt, 1915-2012. Sue Boyt passed away at Harbor Hospice Friday, May 11, 2012. A native Beaumonter, she was born, July 19, 1915, the youngest of five children of Thomas E. and Willie M. Hawley Buck. Sue's, father was a painter for the Eastern Texas Electric Company, which provided Beaumonters with street car service, her mother supplemented the family income by selling her delicious homemade cakes and mayonnaise. When Sue was 14, he father died and her mother bought the Clairmont, a boarding house on Liberty Street, as a way to support her family. After Sue graduated from Beaumont High School in 1932, there was no money for college. She worked in an insurance office as an unpaid employee, a common way in those days for a young people to gain work experience. Later she obtained the status as a paid employee at a typewriter firm and then at the Jefferson County Courthouse, making the grand sum of $75.00 a month. top pay for the time. Sue met the love of her life, Harry Garnham, while she was with a date at Troup's Drugstore in downtown Beaumont. After she got home that night, Harry called her and asked her out for both nights the following weekend. Sue and Harry married in 1937. Harry, a native of Pittsburgh, PA, Harry was in Beaumont working for Talbot Rothwell of the Yount-Lee Oil Company, which brought in a new oil field at Spindletop in 1925. Talbot and his wife Mable had been friends of the Granhams in Pittsburg, PA. During World War II, Sue volunteered with the American Women's Voluntary Services, a support group that took on numerous home front tasks. One of her jobs was to deliver messages informing the families of servicemen wounded or killed in action. Harry and Sue had two children, a son Harry Launce and a daughter Susan Louise. In 1953, Harry died suddenly, leaving Sue to rear their children. She made every effort to keep their lives as they had been before, especially continuing tpo spend summers at the beach that she and Harry loved so well, until Hurricane Caria destroyed their house in 1961. Sue was an avid golfer and nearly played every day 18 holes of golf, walking the course. She was one of the founding members of the Women's Golf Association at the Beaumont Country Club. In 1965, Sue married Cecil Boyt, whom she had known since her brothers college days at Texas A&M. They enjoyed nine years of happiness at the 7L Ranch in Devers until Cecil's death in 1974. After his death, Sue continued the legacy of the ranch for her grandchildren for almost 20 years before she returned to Beaumont.
NOTE: The rest of this Bio. can be read on Legacy.com
Beaumont Enterprise May 14, 2012
Stella Sue Buck Gamham Boyt, 1915-2012. Sue Boyt passed away at Harbor Hospice Friday, May 11, 2012. A native Beaumonter, she was born, July 19, 1915, the youngest of five children of Thomas E. and Willie M. Hawley Buck. Sue's, father was a painter for the Eastern Texas Electric Company, which provided Beaumonters with street car service, her mother supplemented the family income by selling her delicious homemade cakes and mayonnaise. When Sue was 14, he father died and her mother bought the Clairmont, a boarding house on Liberty Street, as a way to support her family. After Sue graduated from Beaumont High School in 1932, there was no money for college. She worked in an insurance office as an unpaid employee, a common way in those days for a young people to gain work experience. Later she obtained the status as a paid employee at a typewriter firm and then at the Jefferson County Courthouse, making the grand sum of $75.00 a month. top pay for the time. Sue met the love of her life, Harry Garnham, while she was with a date at Troup's Drugstore in downtown Beaumont. After she got home that night, Harry called her and asked her out for both nights the following weekend. Sue and Harry married in 1937. Harry, a native of Pittsburgh, PA, Harry was in Beaumont working for Talbot Rothwell of the Yount-Lee Oil Company, which brought in a new oil field at Spindletop in 1925. Talbot and his wife Mable had been friends of the Granhams in Pittsburg, PA. During World War II, Sue volunteered with the American Women's Voluntary Services, a support group that took on numerous home front tasks. One of her jobs was to deliver messages informing the families of servicemen wounded or killed in action. Harry and Sue had two children, a son Harry Launce and a daughter Susan Louise. In 1953, Harry died suddenly, leaving Sue to rear their children. She made every effort to keep their lives as they had been before, especially continuing tpo spend summers at the beach that she and Harry loved so well, until Hurricane Caria destroyed their house in 1961. Sue was an avid golfer and nearly played every day 18 holes of golf, walking the course. She was one of the founding members of the Women's Golf Association at the Beaumont Country Club. In 1965, Sue married Cecil Boyt, whom she had known since her brothers college days at Texas A&M. They enjoyed nine years of happiness at the 7L Ranch in Devers until Cecil's death in 1974. After his death, Sue continued the legacy of the ranch for her grandchildren for almost 20 years before she returned to Beaumont.
NOTE: The rest of this Bio. can be read on Legacy.com
Stella Sue Buck Gamham Boyt, 1915-2012. Sue Boyt passed away at Harbor Hospice Friday, May 11, 2012. A native Beaumonter, she was born, July 19, 1915, the youngest of five children of Thomas E. and Willie M. Hawley Buck. Sue's, father was a painter for the Eastern Texas Electric Company, which provided Beaumonters with street car service, her mother supplemented the family income by selling her delicious homemade cakes and mayonnaise. When Sue was 14, he father died and her mother bought the Clairmont, a boarding house on Liberty Street, as a way to support her family. After Sue graduated from Beaumont High School in 1932, there was no money for college. She worked in an insurance office as an unpaid employee, a common way in those days for a young people to gain work experience. Later she obtained the status as a paid employee at a typewriter firm and then at the Jefferson County Courthouse, making the grand sum of $75.00 a month. top pay for the time. Sue met the love of her life, Harry Garnham, while she was with a date at Troup's Drugstore in downtown Beaumont. After she got home that night, Harry called her and asked her out for both nights the following weekend. Sue and Harry married in 1937. Harry, a native of Pittsburgh, PA, Harry was in Beaumont working for Talbot Rothwell of the Yount-Lee Oil Company, which brought in a new oil field at Spindletop in 1925. Talbot and his wife Mable had been friends of the Granhams in Pittsburg, PA. During World War II, Sue volunteered with the American Women's Voluntary Services, a support group that took on numerous home front tasks. One of her jobs was to deliver messages informing the families of servicemen wounded or killed in action. Harry and Sue had two children, a son Harry Launce and a daughter Susan Louise. In 1953, Harry died suddenly, leaving Sue to rear their children. She made every effort to keep their lives as they had been before, especially continuing tpo spend summers at the beach that she and Harry loved so well, until Hurricane Caria destroyed their house in 1961. Sue was an avid golfer and nearly played every day 18 holes of golf, walking the course. She was one of the founding members of the Women's Golf Association at the Beaumont Country Club. In 1965, Sue married Cecil Boyt, whom she had known since her brothers college days at Texas A&M. They enjoyed nine years of happiness at the 7L Ranch in Devers until Cecil's death in 1974. After his death, Sue continued the legacy of the ranch for her grandchildren for almost 20 years before she returned to Beaumont.
NOTE: The rest of this Bio. can be read on Legacy.com
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