Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....BOYD, HALE February 16, 2014
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News Star World - February 19, 2014
HALE BOYD

Funeral services for Hale Boyd will be held Thursday, February 20, 2014, at 
Mulhearn Funeral Home in Rayville, LA, at 10 AM with Troy Dennard officiating. 
Interment will immediately follow at Rayville Masonic Cemetery. Visitation 
will be 9:00AM till service time.

Hale was born December 17, 1920, in Calhoun, LA. He survived the great 
depression with his family on 56 acres of land where he learned to pinch his 
pennies. He graduated from Calhoun High School. He served his country in the 
U.S. Army at Paris, Texas during World War II. He worked as a welder in Port 
Arthur, Texas for the war effort before joining the Civilian Conservation Corp 
in Ruston, LA when the war ended. He walked many hundreds of miles while 
working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, as 
an agriculture engineer in Richland Parish, surveying many miles of drainage 
ditches and many thousands of acres of land leveling the old fashioned way 
(before ATVs, GPS, and computers) until his retirement in 1975. He enjoyed 
hunting but fishing was his absolute favorite past time, spending many hours 
on all of the numerous lakes of Northeast Louisiana even when the fish weren't 
biting. Clear Lake and Boeuf River were his favorites.

He was preceded in death by his daughter Patricia Boyd Stodghill, his wife 
Eula Croxton Boyd, parents Annie Mae Butler Boyd and James Fillmore "Fid" 
Boyd, and his eight siblings; Iva Mae B. Wade, Ruth B. Thompson, 
Josephine "Jodie" B. Norris, Robert Henry Boyd, Willie B. Aulds, Victor Debs 
Boyd, James Oscar Boyd, and Hazel B. Baker, his twin sister. He is survived by 
his children William Hale Boyd, Joyce Boyd Deloney, and Richard Lawson Boyd, 
four grandchildren, three great grandchildren, and nieces and nephews too 
numerous to mention but not forgotten.

Special thanks to the staff at the Northeast Louisiana War Veterans Home, for 
the great attention, compassion and care shown during our Fathers last years.



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