William Boyd III's Obituary
William Joseph Boyd, III, Ph.D., 68, passed away Sunday, September 18, 2011 at Baptist Memorial Hospital – Memphis. Funeral services for Mr. Boyd will be 11 a.m., Tuesday, September 20 at Covenant United Methodist Church, 8350 Walnut Grove Road, Cordova, TN. Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. at the church. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. Mr. Boyd attended Rhodes College and received his doctorate in physics from The University of Tennessee – Knoxville. He retired from Buckeye Cellulose. He was a devoted husband and loved all of his nieces and nephews and great-nieces and nephews. Mr. Boyd is survived by his wife of 39 years, Jeanne Humphreys Boyd; sister, Miriam Boyd Hamer (Tom) of Dyersburg, TN; nieces and nephews, Tom (Sarah) Hamer, Mary Hamer (Scott) Clowney, Kevin (Rebecca) Floyd, Kristi (Kevin) Bush, Lauren (Scott) Melton, and Ben Humphreys; and great-nieces and nephews, Elizabeth Long, Will Long, Anna Clowney, Emma Clowney, Johnathan Clowney, Margaret Hamer, Caroline Floyd, Allison Floyd, Jackson Bush, and Ryan Melton. The family requests memorials be sent to Covenant United Methodist Church or First Presbyterian Church, 1005 Hwy 51 Bypass W, Dyersburg, TN. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Memorial Park Funeral Home, 5668 Poplar Ave. Memphis, TN 38119, (901)767-8930, “Behind the Stone Wall”.
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