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Submitted: 12/24/20 • Approved: 12/27/20 • Last Updated: 12/30/20 • R373510-G0-S3
December 23, 1919-May 21, 1988
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
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)
Contributed on 12/24/20 by neldapat
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