Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Fairfield Recorder newspaper
November 27, 2008 




Effie Mae (Rosson) Wills Boynton

Graveside services were held Friday for Effie Mae Wills Boynton, 84, of 
Fairfield who died Wednesday, Nov. 19.

Mrs. Boynton was born Effie Mae Rosson on April 28, 1924, in Crockett.

She was the third of nine children to Frank and Sallie Rosson.

Mrs. Boynton attended and graduated from LaMarque high school in 1942.

She filled her high school scrapbooks with drawings and was an avid photographer 
who developed her own work in a dark room built for her by her father.

In 1943, she met and married Earl Wills of Teague and together they had five 
children: Jesse, Earl, Brenda, Bobby, Sissy and Mark.

She was a skilled seamstress who sewed dance recital costumes for her daughters 
and their fellow students.

The money she made from sewing paid, in turn, for her children's ballet lessons.

In 1958, Mrs. Boynton enrolled in Houston's Beauty School of Culture where she 
earned her hairdresser's license.

For many years she owned and operated her own beauty shop in Alvin before moving 
to Pasadena where she was employed as one of the first female postal carriers in 
the state.

She retired from the Postal Service in 1982 and was a member of the National 
Association of Letter Carriers, Union Branch No. 3867, in Pasadena.

Services were held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 21, at Salem Cemetery near 
Freestone.

Officiating the services was Rev. Paul Kethley of the First United Methodist 
Church of Fairfield.

Mrs. Boynton is survived by her sons Bobby Wills of Alvin and Mark Wills of 
Teague; daughter, Sissy Ivy of Fairfield; grandchildren, Doyle Wills of Houston, 
Karlee Duhon of Alvin, Robert Wills of Dallas, Stacie Davis of Houston, Devin 
Williams of Houston, Kevin Williams of Austin, Kim Szymanski and Blake Ivy, both 
of Fairfield, Travis Wills and John Wills, both of Grapevine, and Shelly Wills 
of Austin; eight greatgrandchildren; and sisters, Bebe Chauvin of Houston, 
Kathleen Freeman of Crockett, and Johnnie Beth Mills of Oklahoma.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, Earl L. Wills and W.P. Boynton; son, 
Jesse Earl Wills; daughter, Brenda Sue Williams; her parents, Frank and Sallie 
Rosson; sisters, Idola LaFrance and Ruby Rushing and brothers, Frank, Donald and 
Arnold Rosson.

Memorials can be made to the First United Methodist Church of Fairfield Building 
Fund, 201 North Mount St., Fairfield, Texas 75840 or GFWC Fairfield History Club 
-"Child Advocacy Center Project." Arrangements were made by Bowers Funeral Home 
of Teague.