Port Townsend resident Emily Hamilton Boynton died in Kah Tai Care Center two days after her 101st birthday.
The eldest of seven children, she was born in Orange, Mass., to Henry and Ethel (Wakefield) Hamilton. (Her birth Father was the Gardener, Ethel was working for Henry and he married her
When she found out she was pregnant)
She graduated from Franklin County School of Nursing in 1928.
She married Wesley Boynton in 1929; he died in 1987.
Mrs. Boynton moved to the North Olympic Peninsula in 1996 to live with her daughter, Jane Alice Day of Quilcene, and granddaughter and grandson-in-law, Nathalia and Chip Tantum.
She found an extended family at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Chimacum.
Other survivors include son Wesley Boynton Jr. of Fawn Grove, Pa.; eight grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
Also surviving are siblings on the East Coast.
Services: Memorial, to be announced, at Swanzey, N.H. Kosec Funeral Home, Port Townsend, is in charge of local arrangements.
Peninsula Daily News (Port Angeles, WA) - Sunday, October 5, 2008.
Port Townsend resident Emily Hamilton Boynton died in Kah Tai Care Center two days after her 101st birthday.
The eldest of seven children, she was born in Orange, Mass., to Henry and Ethel (Wakefield) Hamilton. (Her birth Father was the Gardener, Ethel was working for Henry and he married her
When she found out she was pregnant)
She graduated from Franklin County School of Nursing in 1928.
She married Wesley Boynton in 1929; he died in 1987.
Mrs. Boynton moved to the North Olympic Peninsula in 1996 to live with her daughter, Jane Alice Day of Quilcene, and granddaughter and grandson-in-law, Nathalia and Chip Tantum.
She found an extended family at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Chimacum.
Other survivors include son Wesley Boynton Jr. of Fawn Grove, Pa.; eight grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
Also surviving are siblings on the East Coast.
Services: Memorial, to be announced, at Swanzey, N.H. Kosec Funeral Home, Port Townsend, is in charge of local arrangements.
Peninsula Daily News (Port Angeles, WA) - Sunday, October 5, 2008.
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