ST. TAMMANY PARISH, LA. 

Obituary for: BOYD, JOSEPHINE 

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan. 

Source: E.J. Fielding Funeral Home, Covington, La.

Died Wednesday, April 6, 2011

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BOYD, JOSEPHINE 
(March 26, 1928 - April 6, 2011)

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Josephine Grace Richards Boyd died Wednesday, April 6, 2011, after a brief 
illness. 
She was 83. 

A native of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, she grew up in Zachary, Louisiana, and 
Memphis, Tennessee, where she was valedictorian of Southside High School in 
1946. She was a graduate of Memphis State University, where she earned a 
Bachelor of Arts in English. She spent most of her adult life in Jackson, 
Mississippi, where she was a communicant of St. Philip's Episcopal Church and 
active in the life of Millsaps College, where her husband, George Wilson Boyd, 
was a professor of English. Since 2002, she was a resident of Christwood 
Retirement Community in Covington, Louisiana, where she was a communicant of 
Christ Episcopal Church. She was an avid reader and quilter.

She is survived by a son, Andrew Boyd, of Covington, LA; daughters Deirdre 
Martel of Denver, CO; Elizabeth Boyd, of Takoma Park, MD; and Alison Bravenec, 
of Austin, TX; brothers John Richards, of Brooklyn, NY, and Norman Richards, of 
Spanish Fort, AL; and six grandchildren.

A funeral service will be held at Christ Episcopal Church, 120 S. New Hampshire 
St., Covington, LA, on Sunday, April 10, with visitation beginning at 3pm 
followed by the service at 4 pm. 

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations in memory of Mrs. Boyd to The 
John A. Lohman Fund, c/o Christwood Retirement Community, 100 Christwood Blvd., 
Covington, LA, 70433.

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