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Cloteele H. Boyd
(November 1, 1922 – June 16, 2017)
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at the Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Mount Olive for Cloteele H. Boyd, 94 of Mount Olive, who passed away on Friday, June 16, 2017 at the Covington County Hospital in Collins.
Dr. Bob Phillips will officiate at the services with interment to follow in the Mount Olive Cemetery. Colonial Chapel Funeral Home of Mount Olive will be in charge of the arrangements.
Visitation will be held from 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at the Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Mount Olive.
Pallbearers will be the Deacons of the First Baptist Church of Mount Olive.
Mrs. Boyd was born on November 1, 1922 in Mount Olive, Mississippi. She was a loving wife, and mother. Mrs. Boyd was the secretary for the Mount Olive Schools from 1951 until 1964. She then worked for the Small Business Administration in Jackson as their financial officer for over twenty years before her retirement. Mrs. Boyd was a devoted member of the First Baptist Church of Mount Olive where she served as treasurer in the early 1960s and from 1986 until 1994. She was a member of several organizations including the Shadrack Rogers Chapter of the Daughters of American Revolution, the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, and numerous genealogical and historical societys.
She was preceded in death by her parents, William Ben Herrington and Winnie Powers Herrington; her husband, Robert Pershing Boyd; and two brothers, Haskell R. Herrington and William Blois Herrington.
Survivors include her daughter, Sandra E. Boyd of Mount Olive, two sisters-in-law, Alice M. Boyd of Finleyville, Pennsylvania and Mary M. Herrington of Mount Olive; three nieces, Benita Gillespie of Finleyville, Pennsylvania, Janet Kelley of Mount Olive, and Nancy Bagwell of Eupora; one nephew, Robert Boyd of Royal Oak, Michigan; and a host of other family members and friends.
The family request that in lieu of flowers memorials be made to the First Baptist Church of Mount Olive Building Fund, P.O. Box 143, Mount Olive, Mississippi, 39428
Family and friends may sign an online guestbook atwww.billymkingcolonialchapel.com
