Royce E. “Cotton” Boyce, 88, of Canyon, died Tuesday, June 9, 2015, in Amarillo. Brooks Funeral Directors, Canyon.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, June 10, 2015)
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Royce E. “Cotton” Boyce, 88, of Canyon died Tuesday, June 9, 2015, in Amarillo.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Brooks Chapel with Shawn Wyly officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery. Arrangements are by Brooks Funeral Directors of Canyon.
Royce E. “Cotton” Boyce was born March 5, 1927, in Rogers, N.M., to Ely and Nancy Wallan Boyce. They moved to Canyon in 1930, where Cotton grew up and attended school. During his teenage years, he worked for Roy Byrd, Sr. at Black Lantern Headquarters as a farm hand, driving a tractor and tending cattle. Cotton was one of the first members of the Canyon Roping Club. He joined the Navy in 1943 and was honorably discharged in 1946.
He married Martha Lousie Sharp on Oct. 19, 1946, in Canyon. She preceded him in death on May 24, 2010.
Cotton started his 40 year employment with Southwestern Public Services as a ground man in Canyon in 1948. He also worked for SPS in Pampa, Panhandle, Groom, Boise City and retired in Canyon as general foreman of the Line Department and Substation department.
Cotton served as scout master in Panhandle and served on the Volunteer Fire Department and EMS in Groom, where he also helped pioneer the ambulance service. He served as president of Groom Independent School District School Board. He was named Outstanding Citizen of the Year by the Jaycees in Boise City and served for several years as Grand Judge for the Lineman’s Lone Star Rodeo with SPS. He was a Boss Lion in the Groom Lion’s Club, vice president of Rotary Club in Boise City, and a Master Mason in the Canyon Masonic Lodge No. 730.
He loved cattle roping, hunting with his beloved dog, Fritz, and barbed wire collecting throughout Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado. He was a wonderful, loving and caring father and was a rock to his family who loved him dearly.
The family would like to thank the care givers at Ussery-Roan for their loving care.
He was also preceded in death by three sisters, Nancy Jane Boyce, Bonnie Brown, and Viola Glenn, and his brother, Ely I. Boyce Jr.
Survivors include his son, Steve Boyce and wife Tracy of Cimarron, N.M.; two daughters, Beverly Boyce Grimes of Sulphur Springs and Tammy Curry and husband Anthony of Keller; four grandsons, Jeff Boyce, Jason Boyce, Aaron Miller and Micah Miller; two granddaughters, Amy Pruett and Cali Beth Curry; and numerous great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be to Tex Randall Project in care of Canyon Main Street, 1604 Fourth Ave., Canyon, TX 79015 or Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch, P.O. Box 1890, Amarillo, TX 79174.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, June 11, 2015)
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, June 10, 2015)
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Royce E. “Cotton” Boyce, 88, of Canyon died Tuesday, June 9, 2015, in Amarillo.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Brooks Chapel with Shawn Wyly officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery. Arrangements are by Brooks Funeral Directors of Canyon.
Royce E. “Cotton” Boyce was born March 5, 1927, in Rogers, N.M., to Ely and Nancy Wallan Boyce. They moved to Canyon in 1930, where Cotton grew up and attended school. During his teenage years, he worked for Roy Byrd, Sr. at Black Lantern Headquarters as a farm hand, driving a tractor and tending cattle. Cotton was one of the first members of the Canyon Roping Club. He joined the Navy in 1943 and was honorably discharged in 1946.
He married Martha Lousie Sharp on Oct. 19, 1946, in Canyon. She preceded him in death on May 24, 2010.
Cotton started his 40 year employment with Southwestern Public Services as a ground man in Canyon in 1948. He also worked for SPS in Pampa, Panhandle, Groom, Boise City and retired in Canyon as general foreman of the Line Department and Substation department.
Cotton served as scout master in Panhandle and served on the Volunteer Fire Department and EMS in Groom, where he also helped pioneer the ambulance service. He served as president of Groom Independent School District School Board. He was named Outstanding Citizen of the Year by the Jaycees in Boise City and served for several years as Grand Judge for the Lineman’s Lone Star Rodeo with SPS. He was a Boss Lion in the Groom Lion’s Club, vice president of Rotary Club in Boise City, and a Master Mason in the Canyon Masonic Lodge No. 730.
He loved cattle roping, hunting with his beloved dog, Fritz, and barbed wire collecting throughout Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado. He was a wonderful, loving and caring father and was a rock to his family who loved him dearly.
The family would like to thank the care givers at Ussery-Roan for their loving care.
He was also preceded in death by three sisters, Nancy Jane Boyce, Bonnie Brown, and Viola Glenn, and his brother, Ely I. Boyce Jr.
Survivors include his son, Steve Boyce and wife Tracy of Cimarron, N.M.; two daughters, Beverly Boyce Grimes of Sulphur Springs and Tammy Curry and husband Anthony of Keller; four grandsons, Jeff Boyce, Jason Boyce, Aaron Miller and Micah Miller; two granddaughters, Amy Pruett and Cali Beth Curry; and numerous great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be to Tex Randall Project in care of Canyon Main Street, 1604 Fourth Ave., Canyon, TX 79015 or Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch, P.O. Box 1890, Amarillo, TX 79174.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, June 11, 2015)
Royce E. “Cotton” Boyce, 88, of Canyon, died Tuesday, June 9, 2015, in Amarillo. Brooks Funeral Directors, Canyon.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, June 10, 2015)
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Royce E. “Cotton” Boyce, 88, of Canyon died Tuesday, June 9, 2015, in Amarillo.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Brooks Chapel with Shawn Wyly officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery. Arrangements are by Brooks Funeral Directors of Canyon.
Royce E. “Cotton” Boyce was born March 5, 1927, in Rogers, N.M., to Ely and Nancy Wallan Boyce. They moved to Canyon in 1930, where Cotton grew up and attended school. During his teenage years, he worked for Roy Byrd, Sr. at Black Lantern Headquarters as a farm hand, driving a tractor and tending cattle. Cotton was one of the first members of the Canyon Roping Club. He joined the Navy in 1943 and was honorably discharged in 1946.
He married Martha Lousie Sharp on Oct. 19, 1946, in Canyon. She preceded him in death on May 24, 2010.
Cotton started his 40 year employment with Southwestern Public Services as a ground man in Canyon in 1948. He also worked for SPS in Pampa, Panhandle, Groom, Boise City and retired in Canyon as general foreman of the Line Department and Substation department.
Cotton served as scout master in Panhandle and served on the Volunteer Fire Department and EMS in Groom, where he also helped pioneer the ambulance service. He served as president of Groom Independent School District School Board. He was named Outstanding Citizen of the Year by the Jaycees in Boise City and served for several years as Grand Judge for the Lineman’s Lone Star Rodeo with SPS. He was a Boss Lion in the Groom Lion’s Club, vice president of Rotary Club in Boise City, and a Master Mason in the Canyon Masonic Lodge No. 730.
He loved cattle roping, hunting with his beloved dog, Fritz, and barbed wire collecting throughout Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado. He was a wonderful, loving and caring father and was a rock to his family who loved him dearly.
The family would like to thank the care givers at Ussery-Roan for their loving care.
He was also preceded in death by three sisters, Nancy Jane Boyce, Bonnie Brown, and Viola Glenn, and his brother, Ely I. Boyce Jr.
Survivors include his son, Steve Boyce and wife Tracy of Cimarron, N.M.; two daughters, Beverly Boyce Grimes of Sulphur Springs and Tammy Curry and husband Anthony of Keller; four grandsons, Jeff Boyce, Jason Boyce, Aaron Miller and Micah Miller; two granddaughters, Amy Pruett and Cali Beth Curry; and numerous great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be to Tex Randall Project in care of Canyon Main Street, 1604 Fourth Ave., Canyon, TX 79015 or Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch, P.O. Box 1890, Amarillo, TX 79174.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, June 11, 2015)
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, June 10, 2015)
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Royce E. “Cotton” Boyce, 88, of Canyon died Tuesday, June 9, 2015, in Amarillo.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Brooks Chapel with Shawn Wyly officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery. Arrangements are by Brooks Funeral Directors of Canyon.
Royce E. “Cotton” Boyce was born March 5, 1927, in Rogers, N.M., to Ely and Nancy Wallan Boyce. They moved to Canyon in 1930, where Cotton grew up and attended school. During his teenage years, he worked for Roy Byrd, Sr. at Black Lantern Headquarters as a farm hand, driving a tractor and tending cattle. Cotton was one of the first members of the Canyon Roping Club. He joined the Navy in 1943 and was honorably discharged in 1946.
He married Martha Lousie Sharp on Oct. 19, 1946, in Canyon. She preceded him in death on May 24, 2010.
Cotton started his 40 year employment with Southwestern Public Services as a ground man in Canyon in 1948. He also worked for SPS in Pampa, Panhandle, Groom, Boise City and retired in Canyon as general foreman of the Line Department and Substation department.
Cotton served as scout master in Panhandle and served on the Volunteer Fire Department and EMS in Groom, where he also helped pioneer the ambulance service. He served as president of Groom Independent School District School Board. He was named Outstanding Citizen of the Year by the Jaycees in Boise City and served for several years as Grand Judge for the Lineman’s Lone Star Rodeo with SPS. He was a Boss Lion in the Groom Lion’s Club, vice president of Rotary Club in Boise City, and a Master Mason in the Canyon Masonic Lodge No. 730.
He loved cattle roping, hunting with his beloved dog, Fritz, and barbed wire collecting throughout Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado. He was a wonderful, loving and caring father and was a rock to his family who loved him dearly.
The family would like to thank the care givers at Ussery-Roan for their loving care.
He was also preceded in death by three sisters, Nancy Jane Boyce, Bonnie Brown, and Viola Glenn, and his brother, Ely I. Boyce Jr.
Survivors include his son, Steve Boyce and wife Tracy of Cimarron, N.M.; two daughters, Beverly Boyce Grimes of Sulphur Springs and Tammy Curry and husband Anthony of Keller; four grandsons, Jeff Boyce, Jason Boyce, Aaron Miller and Micah Miller; two granddaughters, Amy Pruett and Cali Beth Curry; and numerous great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be to Tex Randall Project in care of Canyon Main Street, 1604 Fourth Ave., Canyon, TX 79015 or Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch, P.O. Box 1890, Amarillo, TX 79174.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, June 11, 2015)
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