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Submitted: 12/24/20 • Approved: 12/27/20 • Last Updated: 12/30/20 • R373507-G373507-S3
Leslie E.
December 23, 1919-May 21, 1988
Remember yesterday today, for tomorrow is life forever.
Billie M.
November 11, 1924-February 16, 1994
I would rather walk in the dark with Jesus than in the light alone.
As they lived together, so shall they be remembered together.
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
Obituary for Leslie
BORGER - Leslie E. Boykin, 68, died Saturday at Amarillo.
Services will be at 4 p.m. Monday in Brown's Chapel of the Fountains with the Rev. Glenneth Harrington, pastor of First United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Westlawn Cemetery by Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Home.
Mr. Boykin, born at Lufkin, had lived in Amarillo for two years. He had lived at Borger from 1946-85. He was a retired field operator with the E&P Department of Phillips Petroleum Co. He was a member of First United Methodist Church, Isom Masonic Lodge No. 1242, Borger Commandery No. 96 Knights Templar, and Khiva Shrine of Amarillo. He was a charter member of Scottish Rite of Lubbock and past president of Borger Shrine Club.
Survivors include his wife, Billie; a son, Henry "Hank" Boykin of Lubbock; a daughter, Linda Kromer of Bedford; three brothers, Maynard Boykin, Wayne Boykin and Charles Boykin, all of Amarillo; two sisters, Evelyn Park of Tucson, Ariz., and Maurine Hamilton of San Jose, Calif.; two grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
(Published in Amarillo Daily News, May 22, 1988)
Obituary for Billie
LUBBOCK - Billie Marie Boykin, 69, died Wednesday, Feb. 16, 1994 at University Medical Center.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Brown's Chapel of the Fountains with the Rev. Archie Echols, pastor, First United Methodist Church, officiating.
Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery by Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Directors.
A native of Ennis, she had been a Lubbock resident since 1991. She was a Borger resident from 1928-1985 and lived in Amarillo from 1985-1991. She was employed at the Borger News-Herald for 19 years before she retired.
She was a member of First United Methodist Church and Eastern Star No. 811.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Leslie E. Boykin May 21, 1988.
Survivors include a son, Hank Boykin of Lubbock; a daughter, Linda Kromer of Bedford; a brother, Raymond Townsend of Dublin; two sisters, Thelma Sherley of Belton; and Clovis Selman of Amarillo; two grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
(Published in Borger News Herald - February 17, 1994)
Contributed on 12/24/20 by neldapat
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