Randolph County AlArchives Obituaries.....Boyd, Dan R. April 26, 1987 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Girardi mmgir@aol.com April 24, 2007, 10:26 pm The Randolph Leader - Apr 29, 1987 The Randolph Leader April 29, 1987 ___________________ OBITUARIES: Death comes to Judge Boyd [Dan R. Boyd] (ROANOKE) Judge Dan R. Boyd, age 83, of 406 West Point Street, Roanoke, died Sunday, April 26, 1987, in Randolph County Hospital, Roanoke, after an illness of several weeks. A native of Montgomery and an early resident of Auburn, he graduated from Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) and received his law degree from the University of Alabama School of Law before coming to Roanoke as a young attorney in 1928. For 30 years of his professional career, Dan Boyd was in public service in the positions of county solicitor, state senator, circuit solicitor (now called "district attorney") of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, circuit judge, and finally supernumerary judge on call to try cases at various places over the state. Judge Boyd was a charter member of the Roanoke Lions Club and a deacon and Sunday school teacher of Roanoke First Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Gladys Baxter Boyd; a son-in-law, William R. Johnson of Huntsville, Ala.; four grandchildren, Mrs. Catherine Johnson McLain of Atlanta, Ga.; Thomas Baxton Johnson of Huntsville, Dr. Reeves Johnson Jr. of Montgomery, and Daniel Boyd Johnson of Atlanta; one great-grandchild, Catherine Keller Johnson of Montgomery; and several nieces and nephews. Judge Boyd's only child, Mrs. Catherine Boyd Johnson of Huntsville, preceded him in death earlier this year. Funeral services were held at 2:00 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at Roanoke First Baptist Church, with interment in Cedarwood Cemetery, Roanoke. Officiating ministers were the Rev. Jeff Holder, the Rev. Don Paulson, and Dr. Austin Staples. Pallbearers were Thomas Turner, Lewis Hamner, Bobby Durham, Earl Manning, Frank Phillips, Page Enloe, John Landers, and Roy Reeves. Honorary pallbearers were members of Judge Boyd's Sunday school class, members of the Lions Club, and other friends. Quattlebaum's Brown-Service Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. __________ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/obits/b/boyd1011gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb