FROM
"DeSOTO COUNTY, TENNESSEE OBITUARIES"
OLIVE BRANCH - James W. Boydston,
79, retired from the Army, died Feb. 18, 2004 at Baptist Memorial
Hospital-Memphis. Services will be at 10 a.m. today at Brantley Funeral
Home with burial in Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown. He was a World War
II, Korean War and Vietnam War veteran, who received a Silver Star,
three Bronze Stars and seven Purple Hearts. He was a Mason and a member
of Hillcrest Baptist Church, where he was a former Sunday school
teacher and choir member. Mr. Boydston, the husband of Dr. Mildred
Bailey Boydston for 59 years, also leaves five daughters, Peggy Jones
of Germantown, Linda Lochridge of Olive Branch, Elizabeth Curtis of
Plato, Mo., Barbara Romanoff of Boring, Ore., and Dr. Jennifer Franklin
of Tucson, Ariz.; a son, L. E. Bailey Boydston of Montara, Calif.; a
sister, Elizabeth Lewis of Clinton, Miss., 21 grandchildren and 32
great-grandchildren.