Elnora Boyd

ELNORA I. (MATTHEWS) BOYD OF POTOSI, MISSOURI WAS BORN SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 1926 IN POTOSI, MISSOURI A DAUGHTER OF THE LATE JANE VAUGHN JENNINGS AND FREDDIE MATTHEWS. ELNORA DIED TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2000 AT THE PALMYRA NURSING HOME IN ALBANY, GEORGIA AT THE AGE OF SEVENTY-THREE YEARS, TEN MONTHS AND NINETEEN DAYS.
ELNORA WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JESSE M. BOYD IN POTOSI, MISSOURI ON MARCH 21, 1947. JESSE PRECEDED ELNORA IN DEATH ON JANUARY 1, 1983 .
ELNORA LEAVES TO SURVIVE HER ONE SISTER, CATHERINE VAUGHN OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI; THREE BROTHERS, QUENTIN VAUGHN AND WIFE MATTIE OF ALBANY, GEORGIA, JAMES O. VAUGHN OF PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA, CORBITT VAUGHN OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A VERY DEAR FRIEND, EDWINA MONROE OF POTOSI AND A NUMBER OF NIECES, NEPHEWS, OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.
ELNORA HAD ACCEPTED CHRIST AS HER SAVIOR AND WAS A LONG TIME MEMBER OF THE POTOSI UNITED METHODIST CHURCH.
ELNORA HAD BEEN EMPLOYED AT THE POTOSI WAL-MART FOR 21 YEARS PRIOR TO HER RETIREMENT.
A KIND AND LOVING WOMAN WHO CHERISHED MANKIND AND ALWAYS HAD THE WELFARE OF OTHERS ON HER MIND. A CHEERFUL SMILE SHE WORE, A NOD OF HER HEAD SHE GAVE, A FRIEND SHE WAS TO ALL WHO KNEW HER.
VISITATION WAS HELD SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2000, FROM 10:00 A.M. TO 1:00 P.M. AT MOORE FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2000, AT 1:00 P.M. AT THE MEMORIAL CHAPEL WITH REVEREND BOB BULLOCK OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN REDBUD MEMORIAL GARDENS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.