JOHN MONROE BOSTON
Roscoe - John Monroe Boston, 88, died Wednesday at an Abilene hospital.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at First Baptist Church with Dr. Robert Sloan and Rev. William Hatler officiating. Burial will be in Roscoe Cemetery, directed by McCoy Funeral Home.
Mr. Boston was born in Seagoville and graduated from Hardin-Simmons University in 1928. He moved to Roscoe in 1928 and became principal at Roscoe Grade School. He got his Master's degree in Education from H-SU in 1951. He worked for 34 years as a principal in the Roscoe Independent School District. He was also a farmer.
He was a deacon at First Baptist Church and was a board member at Big Country Baptist Assembly in Lueders. He was a lifetime member of the President's Club at Hardin-Simmons and a member of the President's Club at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.
Survivors include his wife, Beatrice Faye Boston of Roscoe; a daughter, Mary Lois Williams of Roscoe; a son, Jim D. Boston of Roscoe; three sisters, Francis Baum of Whitesboro, Ifa Nell Cruz of Detroit and Grace Harkness of Mesquite; a brother, David Boston of Medford, Ore.; seven grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
From The Abilene (TX) Reporter, Thursday, Dec. 26, 1991
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Roscoe - John Monroe Boston, 88, died Wednesday at an Abilene hospital.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at First Baptist Church with Dr. Robert Sloan and Rev. William Hatler officiating. Burial will be in Roscoe Cemetery, directed by McCoy Funeral Home.
Mr. Boston was born in Seagoville and graduated from Hardin-Simmons University in 1928. He moved to Roscoe in 1928 and became principal at Roscoe Grade School. He got his Master's degree in Education from H-SU in 1951. He worked for 34 years as a principal in the Roscoe Independent School District. He was also a farmer.
He was a deacon at First Baptist Church and was a board member at Big Country Baptist Assembly in Lueders. He was a lifetime member of the President's Club at Hardin-Simmons and a member of the President's Club at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.
Survivors include his wife, Beatrice Faye Boston of Roscoe; a daughter, Mary Lois Williams of Roscoe; a son, Jim D. Boston of Roscoe; three sisters, Francis Baum of Whitesboro, Ifa Nell Cruz of Detroit and Grace Harkness of Mesquite; a brother, David Boston of Medford, Ore.; seven grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
From The Abilene (TX) Reporter, Thursday, Dec. 26, 1991
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JOHN MONROE BOSTON
Roscoe - John Monroe Boston, 88, died Wednesday at an Abilene hospital.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at First Baptist Church with Dr. Robert Sloan and Rev. William Hatler officiating. Burial will be in Roscoe Cemetery, directed by McCoy Funeral Home.
Mr. Boston was born in Seagoville and graduated from Hardin-Simmons University in 1928. He moved to Roscoe in 1928 and became principal at Roscoe Grade School. He got his Master's degree in Education from H-SU in 1951. He worked for 34 years as a principal in the Roscoe Independent School District. He was also a farmer.
He was a deacon at First Baptist Church and was a board member at Big Country Baptist Assembly in Lueders. He was a lifetime member of the President's Club at Hardin-Simmons and a member of the President's Club at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.
Survivors include his wife, Beatrice Faye Boston of Roscoe; a daughter, Mary Lois Williams of Roscoe; a son, Jim D. Boston of Roscoe; three sisters, Francis Baum of Whitesboro, Ifa Nell Cruz of Detroit and Grace Harkness of Mesquite; a brother, David Boston of Medford, Ore.; seven grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
From The Abilene (TX) Reporter, Thursday, Dec. 26, 1991
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Roscoe - John Monroe Boston, 88, died Wednesday at an Abilene hospital.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at First Baptist Church with Dr. Robert Sloan and Rev. William Hatler officiating. Burial will be in Roscoe Cemetery, directed by McCoy Funeral Home.
Mr. Boston was born in Seagoville and graduated from Hardin-Simmons University in 1928. He moved to Roscoe in 1928 and became principal at Roscoe Grade School. He got his Master's degree in Education from H-SU in 1951. He worked for 34 years as a principal in the Roscoe Independent School District. He was also a farmer.
He was a deacon at First Baptist Church and was a board member at Big Country Baptist Assembly in Lueders. He was a lifetime member of the President's Club at Hardin-Simmons and a member of the President's Club at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.
Survivors include his wife, Beatrice Faye Boston of Roscoe; a daughter, Mary Lois Williams of Roscoe; a son, Jim D. Boston of Roscoe; three sisters, Francis Baum of Whitesboro, Ifa Nell Cruz of Detroit and Grace Harkness of Mesquite; a brother, David Boston of Medford, Ore.; seven grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
From The Abilene (TX) Reporter, Thursday, Dec. 26, 1991
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