Extracted from The Laurel Leader-Call (Laurel, MS)
Monday, July 9, 1962

J. ALLEN BOYD

Funeral services for J. Allen Boyd, 78, a former Laurel resident, who died in Menlo Park, Calif., where he had been living, have been set for Tuesday morning, 10 o'clock, from the Chapel of Thompson Funeral Home.

The Rev. Marion Wilson will officiate, and burial will be in Hickory Grove Cemetery.

He leaves one daughter, Mrs. Vernon Rockett, Menlo Park; one son, Horace C. Boyd, Jacksonville, Fla.; four grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Viola Davis, Laurel.

Pallbearers will be X. L. Davis, Clewis Davis, J. L. Davis, R. M. Pittman Jr., Frank Pittman and Charles Locke.

Thompson Funeral Home is in charge.