Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico
November 2, 1977
BOYCE
Funeral services for A.C. Boyce, 67, of 917 N. Edwards, will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church. Boyce died Wednesday.
A resident of Carlsbad for 51 years, Boyce was born in Manor, Teas, Jan. 24, 1910. He moved to Carlsbad in 1926 and graduated from Carlsbad High School in 1929. He was a retired power house operator for U.S. Borax.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Eddy Lodge 21 AF & AM and Scottish Rite, was a Carlsbad city councilman in the early 1960s, and was on the board of directors of the Camp Fire Girls, receiving the Gulick award, the highest honor for a Camp Fire volunteer worker.
Burial will be in Carlsbad Cemetery with Carlsbad Council Camp Fire girls serving as honorary pallbearers. Masonic graveside service will be conducted by Eddy Lodge and a Lodge of Sorrow will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Masonic Temple. Active pallbearers will be James McAdams, Fritz Priesnitz, Loyd Sadler, H.C. Harvey, Horace Wilder and Albert Calvani.
Boyce's survivors include his wife, Daisy, of Carlsbad; a son, Louis Garth of Albuquerque; a daughter, Elisabeth Ann Sears of Ruidoso; a brother, John G. Boyce of Carlsbad; a sister, Vickie Blackburn of Carlsbad; and seven grandchildren.
The Boyces were married Dec. 22, 1936, in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico
November 2, 1977
BOYCE
Funeral services for A.C. Boyce, 67, of 917 N. Edwards, will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church. Boyce died Wednesday.
A resident of Carlsbad for 51 years, Boyce was born in Manor, Teas, Jan. 24, 1910. He moved to Carlsbad in 1926 and graduated from Carlsbad High School in 1929. He was a retired power house operator for U.S. Borax.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Eddy Lodge 21 AF & AM and Scottish Rite, was a Carlsbad city councilman in the early 1960s, and was on the board of directors of the Camp Fire Girls, receiving the Gulick award, the highest honor for a Camp Fire volunteer worker.
Burial will be in Carlsbad Cemetery with Carlsbad Council Camp Fire girls serving as honorary pallbearers. Masonic graveside service will be conducted by Eddy Lodge and a Lodge of Sorrow will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Masonic Temple. Active pallbearers will be James McAdams, Fritz Priesnitz, Loyd Sadler, H.C. Harvey, Horace Wilder and Albert Calvani.
Boyce's survivors include his wife, Daisy, of Carlsbad; a son, Louis Garth of Albuquerque; a daughter, Elisabeth Ann Sears of Ruidoso; a brother, John G. Boyce of Carlsbad; a sister, Vickie Blackburn of Carlsbad; and seven grandchildren.
The Boyces were married Dec. 22, 1936, in Wichita Falls, Texas.
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