GEORGE BOYD, 76, NOLAN PIONEER, DIES

Sweetwater - George W. Boyd, 76, lifetime Nolan County resident and well-known Sweetwater Lake area farmer and rancher, died at 10:25 p.m. Tuesday in Simmons Memorial Hospital.

Funeral will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday in Patterson Chapel of Memories with Paul Rogers, minister of Fourth and Elm St. Church of Christ, officiating. Burial will be in Coffee Cemetery near Lake Sweetwater.

Born Dec. 12, 1887, he married May Brown at Eskota on Jan. 15, 1911. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Boyd, pioneers here.

Surviving are his wife; three daughters, Mrs. J. D. (Dorothy) Wallace and Mrs. W. R. (Louise) Neal of Sweetwater, and Mrs. Joe (Margaret Jo) Midkiff of Midland; two sons, George W. , Jr. of Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. and Hollis of Hurst; four brothers, Jesse of Petersburg, John of Mertzon, Bill of Sweetwater, and Joe of St. Louis; three sisters, Mrs. Lou Brown of Prescott, Ariz., Mrs. Frances Rasberry of Fort Worth and Mrs. Irene Witt of Long Beach, Calif.

Pallbearers will be Charles Roden, Hill Bolin, Jimmy Shilling, Otto Martin, Roy Stroman and Jimmy Ronemus.

From The Abilene (TX) Reporter, Saturday, Sept. 19, 1964
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NOLAN COUNTY DEATH CERTIFICATE

Name: George W. Boyd
Death date: 17 Sep 1964
Death place: Simmons Memorial Hospital, Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas
Cause of death: Chronic pulmonary emphysema
Gender: Male
Race or color (on document): White
Age at death: 76 years 9 months 5 days
Birth date: 12 Dec 1887
Birth place: Sweetwater, Texas
Marital status: Married
Spouse name: May Boyd
Father name: W. H. Boyd
Father birth place:
Mother name: Martha Byrd
Mother birth place:
Occupation: Farming & Ranching
Residence: Star Route, Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas
Cemetery name: Coffee Cemetery
Burial place: Sweetwater, Texas
Burial date: 19 Sep 1964
Informant: Mrs. May Boyd, wife
Film number: 2117599
Digital GS number: 4028390
Image number: 507
Reference number: cn 59000
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
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