Boyd W. Hargraves, 60 president of the National Business Men's Evangelistic clubs for many years.
Mr. Hargraves was well known in Spartanburg, where he has spoken, as a Christian lay leader, in nearly every church in the city.
He died Monday May 22, 1944 from kidney and heart complications which followed an illness of pneumonia with which he was stricken on April 25. Funeral services were held Wednesday and were attended by Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Randolph of Spartanburg.
Mr. Hargraves was a leading attorney of Chattanooga and was internationally known as a religious lay leader.
A native of Chattanooga, he was educated in the Chattanooga public schools and graduated from Emory and Henry college in Virginia and from the Chattanooga College of Law.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs Myrtle Rea Hargraves: a son Cpl. Boyd Rea Hargraves, Camp Polk, La: two brothers, Jesse M. Hargraves and N.B. Hargraves: two sisters, Miss Mollie Hargraves and Mrs E. E. Laycock
Boyd W. Hargraves, 60 president of the National Business Men's Evangelistic clubs for many years.
Mr. Hargraves was well known in Spartanburg, where he has spoken, as a Christian lay leader, in nearly every church in the city.
He died Monday May 22, 1944 from kidney and heart complications which followed an illness of pneumonia with which he was stricken on April 25. Funeral services were held Wednesday and were attended by Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Randolph of Spartanburg.
Mr. Hargraves was a leading attorney of Chattanooga and was internationally known as a religious lay leader.
A native of Chattanooga, he was educated in the Chattanooga public schools and graduated from Emory and Henry college in Virginia and from the Chattanooga College of Law.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs Myrtle Rea Hargraves: a son Cpl. Boyd Rea Hargraves, Camp Polk, La: two brothers, Jesse M. Hargraves and N.B. Hargraves: two sisters, Miss Mollie Hargraves and Mrs E. E. Laycock
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