BOYD, MANAGER OF RESTAURANTS, HOTELS IN AREA, DIES
Knoxville News-Sentinel, The (TN) - Saturday, January 2, 1993
Bryan Boyd, a longtime manager of hotels and restaurants, died Friday at St. Mary's Medical Center. He was 95.
Mr. Boyd's career began in Alabama with the Clement Hotel. He also worked in Florida, Georgia, Texas and Tennessee, opening an air-conditioned restaurant in Knoxville in 1932.
For several seasons he managed the Wonderland Club Hotel near Gatlinburg. During World War II, Mr. Boyd was purchasing agent for the cafeterias, canteens and trailer camps for personnel at Oak Ridge. His group served some 50,000 meals and 10,000 sandwiches a day.
Mr. Boyd was a member of Fifth Avenue Baptist Church and Shekinah Lodge No. 524 F AM.
Survivors include his wife, Lucille Boyd, and son, Richard Boyd, both of Knoxville; and several nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Rose Mortuary!Broadway Chapel. Graveside and interment services will be at noon Monday at Greenwood Cemetery.
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From "The Boyds of Boyds Tank", 1970, by Frank Ewell Boyd & William Taylor boyd, page 101 & 102:
The William Jennings Bryan Boyd Family.
Bryan Boyd was born September 22, 1897 in Chambers County, Alabama. Bryan, like his brothers and sisters, attended grade school at Union near Marcoot and finished high school at Lafayette. In school he participated in track and basketball. After athletic practice he ran the three miles home to take care of his farm chores before dark.
Bryan worked at several odd jobs before going with the Clement Hotel at Opelika, AL. This was the beginning of a career in hotel and restaurant business that took him from Alabama, to Florida, to Georgia, to Texas and to Tennessee. In 1932 he opened the first air-conditioned restaurant at Knoxville, TN. This was also the first all-electric kitchen in that city. For several seasons he managed the Wonderland Club Hotel in the Great Smoky Mountains near Gatlinburg, TN.
During WWII Bryan held the unique position of purchasing agent for the cafeterias, canteens and trailer camps for the personnel comprising Atomic City at Oak Ridge, TN. His group served some 50,000 meals each day and a crew of ten people worked eight hours each night making 10,000 sandwiches for take-out lunches. The US Army furnished priority for the needed ingredients, materials and food items. Bryan Boyd received a Certificate of Merit from the Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, for keeping this mammoth undertaking functioning.
While in the restaurant business at Ft. Myers, FL, Bryan had the contract to feed Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics baseball club during spring training. In Houston, TX, he worked with an old German Chef who taught him many tricks of the trade. The, there was his experience in feeding the hordes at Miami during the Florida boom. In Atlanta he was with the Piedmont Hotel restaurant.
In 1920 Bryan became a Master Mason at West Point, GA. Here he held membership in Lodge No. 43 until 1957, when he transferred to Shekinah Lodge No. 524 at Knoxville, TN. In 1964 Shekinah Lodge presented him with a 25-year membership pin.
Bryan Boyd married (1) Loretta Lewis (1895-1945) of Morristown, TN. June 12, 1928. There were no children. On December 28, 1946 he married (2) Lucile Armstrong of Knoxville. During WWII Lucile worked with the Federal Government at Washington and later with the Federal Housing Administration at Knoxville.
Richard Armstrong Boyd, the only child of Bryan and Lucile, was born at Miami Beach, FL, February 28, 1949. He attended grade schools at Knoxville and entered the University of Tennessee in 1968. The followed a course at the Electronic Computer Program Institute. Next was a call to military duty and assignment in Vietnam.
Knoxville News-Sentinel, The (TN) - Saturday, January 2, 1993
Bryan Boyd, a longtime manager of hotels and restaurants, died Friday at St. Mary's Medical Center. He was 95.
Mr. Boyd's career began in Alabama with the Clement Hotel. He also worked in Florida, Georgia, Texas and Tennessee, opening an air-conditioned restaurant in Knoxville in 1932.
For several seasons he managed the Wonderland Club Hotel near Gatlinburg. During World War II, Mr. Boyd was purchasing agent for the cafeterias, canteens and trailer camps for personnel at Oak Ridge. His group served some 50,000 meals and 10,000 sandwiches a day.
Mr. Boyd was a member of Fifth Avenue Baptist Church and Shekinah Lodge No. 524 F AM.
Survivors include his wife, Lucille Boyd, and son, Richard Boyd, both of Knoxville; and several nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Rose Mortuary!Broadway Chapel. Graveside and interment services will be at noon Monday at Greenwood Cemetery.
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From "The Boyds of Boyds Tank", 1970, by Frank Ewell Boyd & William Taylor boyd, page 101 & 102:
The William Jennings Bryan Boyd Family.
Bryan Boyd was born September 22, 1897 in Chambers County, Alabama. Bryan, like his brothers and sisters, attended grade school at Union near Marcoot and finished high school at Lafayette. In school he participated in track and basketball. After athletic practice he ran the three miles home to take care of his farm chores before dark.
Bryan worked at several odd jobs before going with the Clement Hotel at Opelika, AL. This was the beginning of a career in hotel and restaurant business that took him from Alabama, to Florida, to Georgia, to Texas and to Tennessee. In 1932 he opened the first air-conditioned restaurant at Knoxville, TN. This was also the first all-electric kitchen in that city. For several seasons he managed the Wonderland Club Hotel in the Great Smoky Mountains near Gatlinburg, TN.
During WWII Bryan held the unique position of purchasing agent for the cafeterias, canteens and trailer camps for the personnel comprising Atomic City at Oak Ridge, TN. His group served some 50,000 meals each day and a crew of ten people worked eight hours each night making 10,000 sandwiches for take-out lunches. The US Army furnished priority for the needed ingredients, materials and food items. Bryan Boyd received a Certificate of Merit from the Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, for keeping this mammoth undertaking functioning.
While in the restaurant business at Ft. Myers, FL, Bryan had the contract to feed Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics baseball club during spring training. In Houston, TX, he worked with an old German Chef who taught him many tricks of the trade. The, there was his experience in feeding the hordes at Miami during the Florida boom. In Atlanta he was with the Piedmont Hotel restaurant.
In 1920 Bryan became a Master Mason at West Point, GA. Here he held membership in Lodge No. 43 until 1957, when he transferred to Shekinah Lodge No. 524 at Knoxville, TN. In 1964 Shekinah Lodge presented him with a 25-year membership pin.
Bryan Boyd married (1) Loretta Lewis (1895-1945) of Morristown, TN. June 12, 1928. There were no children. On December 28, 1946 he married (2) Lucile Armstrong of Knoxville. During WWII Lucile worked with the Federal Government at Washington and later with the Federal Housing Administration at Knoxville.
Richard Armstrong Boyd, the only child of Bryan and Lucile, was born at Miami Beach, FL, February 28, 1949. He attended grade schools at Knoxville and entered the University of Tennessee in 1968. The followed a course at the Electronic Computer Program Institute. Next was a call to military duty and assignment in Vietnam.
BOYD, MANAGER OF RESTAURANTS, HOTELS IN AREA, DIES
Knoxville News-Sentinel, The (TN) - Saturday, January 2, 1993
Bryan Boyd, a longtime manager of hotels and restaurants, died Friday at St. Mary's Medical Center. He was 95.
Mr. Boyd's career began in Alabama with the Clement Hotel. He also worked in Florida, Georgia, Texas and Tennessee, opening an air-conditioned restaurant in Knoxville in 1932.
For several seasons he managed the Wonderland Club Hotel near Gatlinburg. During World War II, Mr. Boyd was purchasing agent for the cafeterias, canteens and trailer camps for personnel at Oak Ridge. His group served some 50,000 meals and 10,000 sandwiches a day.
Mr. Boyd was a member of Fifth Avenue Baptist Church and Shekinah Lodge No. 524 F AM.
Survivors include his wife, Lucille Boyd, and son, Richard Boyd, both of Knoxville; and several nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Rose Mortuary!Broadway Chapel. Graveside and interment services will be at noon Monday at Greenwood Cemetery.
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From "The Boyds of Boyds Tank", 1970, by Frank Ewell Boyd & William Taylor boyd, page 101 & 102:
The William Jennings Bryan Boyd Family.
Bryan Boyd was born September 22, 1897 in Chambers County, Alabama. Bryan, like his brothers and sisters, attended grade school at Union near Marcoot and finished high school at Lafayette. In school he participated in track and basketball. After athletic practice he ran the three miles home to take care of his farm chores before dark.
Bryan worked at several odd jobs before going with the Clement Hotel at Opelika, AL. This was the beginning of a career in hotel and restaurant business that took him from Alabama, to Florida, to Georgia, to Texas and to Tennessee. In 1932 he opened the first air-conditioned restaurant at Knoxville, TN. This was also the first all-electric kitchen in that city. For several seasons he managed the Wonderland Club Hotel in the Great Smoky Mountains near Gatlinburg, TN.
During WWII Bryan held the unique position of purchasing agent for the cafeterias, canteens and trailer camps for the personnel comprising Atomic City at Oak Ridge, TN. His group served some 50,000 meals each day and a crew of ten people worked eight hours each night making 10,000 sandwiches for take-out lunches. The US Army furnished priority for the needed ingredients, materials and food items. Bryan Boyd received a Certificate of Merit from the Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, for keeping this mammoth undertaking functioning.
While in the restaurant business at Ft. Myers, FL, Bryan had the contract to feed Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics baseball club during spring training. In Houston, TX, he worked with an old German Chef who taught him many tricks of the trade. The, there was his experience in feeding the hordes at Miami during the Florida boom. In Atlanta he was with the Piedmont Hotel restaurant.
In 1920 Bryan became a Master Mason at West Point, GA. Here he held membership in Lodge No. 43 until 1957, when he transferred to Shekinah Lodge No. 524 at Knoxville, TN. In 1964 Shekinah Lodge presented him with a 25-year membership pin.
Bryan Boyd married (1) Loretta Lewis (1895-1945) of Morristown, TN. June 12, 1928. There were no children. On December 28, 1946 he married (2) Lucile Armstrong of Knoxville. During WWII Lucile worked with the Federal Government at Washington and later with the Federal Housing Administration at Knoxville.
Richard Armstrong Boyd, the only child of Bryan and Lucile, was born at Miami Beach, FL, February 28, 1949. He attended grade schools at Knoxville and entered the University of Tennessee in 1968. The followed a course at the Electronic Computer Program Institute. Next was a call to military duty and assignment in Vietnam.
Knoxville News-Sentinel, The (TN) - Saturday, January 2, 1993
Bryan Boyd, a longtime manager of hotels and restaurants, died Friday at St. Mary's Medical Center. He was 95.
Mr. Boyd's career began in Alabama with the Clement Hotel. He also worked in Florida, Georgia, Texas and Tennessee, opening an air-conditioned restaurant in Knoxville in 1932.
For several seasons he managed the Wonderland Club Hotel near Gatlinburg. During World War II, Mr. Boyd was purchasing agent for the cafeterias, canteens and trailer camps for personnel at Oak Ridge. His group served some 50,000 meals and 10,000 sandwiches a day.
Mr. Boyd was a member of Fifth Avenue Baptist Church and Shekinah Lodge No. 524 F AM.
Survivors include his wife, Lucille Boyd, and son, Richard Boyd, both of Knoxville; and several nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Rose Mortuary!Broadway Chapel. Graveside and interment services will be at noon Monday at Greenwood Cemetery.
********
From "The Boyds of Boyds Tank", 1970, by Frank Ewell Boyd & William Taylor boyd, page 101 & 102:
The William Jennings Bryan Boyd Family.
Bryan Boyd was born September 22, 1897 in Chambers County, Alabama. Bryan, like his brothers and sisters, attended grade school at Union near Marcoot and finished high school at Lafayette. In school he participated in track and basketball. After athletic practice he ran the three miles home to take care of his farm chores before dark.
Bryan worked at several odd jobs before going with the Clement Hotel at Opelika, AL. This was the beginning of a career in hotel and restaurant business that took him from Alabama, to Florida, to Georgia, to Texas and to Tennessee. In 1932 he opened the first air-conditioned restaurant at Knoxville, TN. This was also the first all-electric kitchen in that city. For several seasons he managed the Wonderland Club Hotel in the Great Smoky Mountains near Gatlinburg, TN.
During WWII Bryan held the unique position of purchasing agent for the cafeterias, canteens and trailer camps for the personnel comprising Atomic City at Oak Ridge, TN. His group served some 50,000 meals each day and a crew of ten people worked eight hours each night making 10,000 sandwiches for take-out lunches. The US Army furnished priority for the needed ingredients, materials and food items. Bryan Boyd received a Certificate of Merit from the Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, for keeping this mammoth undertaking functioning.
While in the restaurant business at Ft. Myers, FL, Bryan had the contract to feed Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics baseball club during spring training. In Houston, TX, he worked with an old German Chef who taught him many tricks of the trade. The, there was his experience in feeding the hordes at Miami during the Florida boom. In Atlanta he was with the Piedmont Hotel restaurant.
In 1920 Bryan became a Master Mason at West Point, GA. Here he held membership in Lodge No. 43 until 1957, when he transferred to Shekinah Lodge No. 524 at Knoxville, TN. In 1964 Shekinah Lodge presented him with a 25-year membership pin.
Bryan Boyd married (1) Loretta Lewis (1895-1945) of Morristown, TN. June 12, 1928. There were no children. On December 28, 1946 he married (2) Lucile Armstrong of Knoxville. During WWII Lucile worked with the Federal Government at Washington and later with the Federal Housing Administration at Knoxville.
Richard Armstrong Boyd, the only child of Bryan and Lucile, was born at Miami Beach, FL, February 28, 1949. He attended grade schools at Knoxville and entered the University of Tennessee in 1968. The followed a course at the Electronic Computer Program Institute. Next was a call to military duty and assignment in Vietnam.
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