From The Nashua Reporter, 28 Apr 1976
Hazel Boyd Dies At Age of 87
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday from the Baptist church in Plainfield for Hazel Una Boyd, 87, who died April 5. She had been a resident of the Salsbury Baptist Home in Charles City the past three years.
The Rev. Llewellyn Walker officiated, and burial was in Willow Lawn cemetery.
Music was by Janice Fritcher, organist.
Casketbearers were John Roach, Claude Smith, Harold Briggs, Richard Roach, Gerald Howrey and Ralph Chester.
MISS BOYD WAS born in Bremer county December 17, 1888, the daughter of Franklin and Elizabeth Cooper Boyd.
She is survived by two greatnieces, Mrs. Harvey Matthieson of Los Gatos. Ca., and Mrs. Norman Poppe of Waverly, and a great-nephew, R.N. Buck of Davenport.
Hazel Boyd's parents, Franklin and Elizabeth Cooper Boyd, lived in Plainfield and her father was a merchant. Hazel was born in their home up over the store. The Boyd Mercantile Company. She had two brothers and was the youngest of the children. She often helped her father in the store.
She graduated from Plainfield High School and the Music Department at Iowa State Normal School. She studied piano and violin. Later, she attended the Cosmpolitan Conservatory in Chicago and continued her piano study with Victor Heinze.
She taught private lessons to students in Marble Rock, Rockford. Shell Rock, Waverly and Plainfield. She made her rounds for her classes by train, the Illinois Central and Rock Island. Then, she went to Nora Springs to take over the Music Department of the Nora Springs Seminary. While there she was privileged to take private lessons in Art and learned China Painting. When she returned to Plainfield and to giving private lessons again, she also taught China Painting.
For 12 or more years she was Director of Christian Education for the American Baptist Publication Society. She worked primarily with children's work while with the state of Iowa at Des Moines. With the District Midwest States at the Chicago headquarters she traveled to Conventions, Leadership Training Meetings, etc. Later while working out of the National Office at Philadelphia. Pa., she went wherever they sent her; mostly directing Bible Schools in cities in various states.
After returning to Plainfield to live she continued to teach music and art in the area. After retirement, she spent her winters in Florida and California. Along with her accomplishments in music and art, she also did sewing, crocheting and tatting.
She was a member of the Plainfield First Baptist Church. She had been especially active in Leadership Training. Superintendent of the Sunday School and Young People's Work.
Hazel Boyd Dies At Age of 87
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday from the Baptist church in Plainfield for Hazel Una Boyd, 87, who died April 5. She had been a resident of the Salsbury Baptist Home in Charles City the past three years.
The Rev. Llewellyn Walker officiated, and burial was in Willow Lawn cemetery.
Music was by Janice Fritcher, organist.
Casketbearers were John Roach, Claude Smith, Harold Briggs, Richard Roach, Gerald Howrey and Ralph Chester.
MISS BOYD WAS born in Bremer county December 17, 1888, the daughter of Franklin and Elizabeth Cooper Boyd.
She is survived by two greatnieces, Mrs. Harvey Matthieson of Los Gatos. Ca., and Mrs. Norman Poppe of Waverly, and a great-nephew, R.N. Buck of Davenport.
Hazel Boyd's parents, Franklin and Elizabeth Cooper Boyd, lived in Plainfield and her father was a merchant. Hazel was born in their home up over the store. The Boyd Mercantile Company. She had two brothers and was the youngest of the children. She often helped her father in the store.
She graduated from Plainfield High School and the Music Department at Iowa State Normal School. She studied piano and violin. Later, she attended the Cosmpolitan Conservatory in Chicago and continued her piano study with Victor Heinze.
She taught private lessons to students in Marble Rock, Rockford. Shell Rock, Waverly and Plainfield. She made her rounds for her classes by train, the Illinois Central and Rock Island. Then, she went to Nora Springs to take over the Music Department of the Nora Springs Seminary. While there she was privileged to take private lessons in Art and learned China Painting. When she returned to Plainfield and to giving private lessons again, she also taught China Painting.
For 12 or more years she was Director of Christian Education for the American Baptist Publication Society. She worked primarily with children's work while with the state of Iowa at Des Moines. With the District Midwest States at the Chicago headquarters she traveled to Conventions, Leadership Training Meetings, etc. Later while working out of the National Office at Philadelphia. Pa., she went wherever they sent her; mostly directing Bible Schools in cities in various states.
After returning to Plainfield to live she continued to teach music and art in the area. After retirement, she spent her winters in Florida and California. Along with her accomplishments in music and art, she also did sewing, crocheting and tatting.
She was a member of the Plainfield First Baptist Church. She had been especially active in Leadership Training. Superintendent of the Sunday School and Young People's Work.
From The Nashua Reporter, 28 Apr 1976
Hazel Boyd Dies At Age of 87
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday from the Baptist church in Plainfield for Hazel Una Boyd, 87, who died April 5. She had been a resident of the Salsbury Baptist Home in Charles City the past three years.
The Rev. Llewellyn Walker officiated, and burial was in Willow Lawn cemetery.
Music was by Janice Fritcher, organist.
Casketbearers were John Roach, Claude Smith, Harold Briggs, Richard Roach, Gerald Howrey and Ralph Chester.
MISS BOYD WAS born in Bremer county December 17, 1888, the daughter of Franklin and Elizabeth Cooper Boyd.
She is survived by two greatnieces, Mrs. Harvey Matthieson of Los Gatos. Ca., and Mrs. Norman Poppe of Waverly, and a great-nephew, R.N. Buck of Davenport.
Hazel Boyd's parents, Franklin and Elizabeth Cooper Boyd, lived in Plainfield and her father was a merchant. Hazel was born in their home up over the store. The Boyd Mercantile Company. She had two brothers and was the youngest of the children. She often helped her father in the store.
She graduated from Plainfield High School and the Music Department at Iowa State Normal School. She studied piano and violin. Later, she attended the Cosmpolitan Conservatory in Chicago and continued her piano study with Victor Heinze.
She taught private lessons to students in Marble Rock, Rockford. Shell Rock, Waverly and Plainfield. She made her rounds for her classes by train, the Illinois Central and Rock Island. Then, she went to Nora Springs to take over the Music Department of the Nora Springs Seminary. While there she was privileged to take private lessons in Art and learned China Painting. When she returned to Plainfield and to giving private lessons again, she also taught China Painting.
For 12 or more years she was Director of Christian Education for the American Baptist Publication Society. She worked primarily with children's work while with the state of Iowa at Des Moines. With the District Midwest States at the Chicago headquarters she traveled to Conventions, Leadership Training Meetings, etc. Later while working out of the National Office at Philadelphia. Pa., she went wherever they sent her; mostly directing Bible Schools in cities in various states.
After returning to Plainfield to live she continued to teach music and art in the area. After retirement, she spent her winters in Florida and California. Along with her accomplishments in music and art, she also did sewing, crocheting and tatting.
She was a member of the Plainfield First Baptist Church. She had been especially active in Leadership Training. Superintendent of the Sunday School and Young People's Work.
Hazel Boyd Dies At Age of 87
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday from the Baptist church in Plainfield for Hazel Una Boyd, 87, who died April 5. She had been a resident of the Salsbury Baptist Home in Charles City the past three years.
The Rev. Llewellyn Walker officiated, and burial was in Willow Lawn cemetery.
Music was by Janice Fritcher, organist.
Casketbearers were John Roach, Claude Smith, Harold Briggs, Richard Roach, Gerald Howrey and Ralph Chester.
MISS BOYD WAS born in Bremer county December 17, 1888, the daughter of Franklin and Elizabeth Cooper Boyd.
She is survived by two greatnieces, Mrs. Harvey Matthieson of Los Gatos. Ca., and Mrs. Norman Poppe of Waverly, and a great-nephew, R.N. Buck of Davenport.
Hazel Boyd's parents, Franklin and Elizabeth Cooper Boyd, lived in Plainfield and her father was a merchant. Hazel was born in their home up over the store. The Boyd Mercantile Company. She had two brothers and was the youngest of the children. She often helped her father in the store.
She graduated from Plainfield High School and the Music Department at Iowa State Normal School. She studied piano and violin. Later, she attended the Cosmpolitan Conservatory in Chicago and continued her piano study with Victor Heinze.
She taught private lessons to students in Marble Rock, Rockford. Shell Rock, Waverly and Plainfield. She made her rounds for her classes by train, the Illinois Central and Rock Island. Then, she went to Nora Springs to take over the Music Department of the Nora Springs Seminary. While there she was privileged to take private lessons in Art and learned China Painting. When she returned to Plainfield and to giving private lessons again, she also taught China Painting.
For 12 or more years she was Director of Christian Education for the American Baptist Publication Society. She worked primarily with children's work while with the state of Iowa at Des Moines. With the District Midwest States at the Chicago headquarters she traveled to Conventions, Leadership Training Meetings, etc. Later while working out of the National Office at Philadelphia. Pa., she went wherever they sent her; mostly directing Bible Schools in cities in various states.
After returning to Plainfield to live she continued to teach music and art in the area. After retirement, she spent her winters in Florida and California. Along with her accomplishments in music and art, she also did sewing, crocheting and tatting.
She was a member of the Plainfield First Baptist Church. She had been especially active in Leadership Training. Superintendent of the Sunday School and Young People's Work.
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