Obit: Rena Cox Boney - Madison Parish, LA Submitted by:  Richard P. Sevier Midland, Texas

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From Tallulah Madison Journal, July 16, 1941

 

RENA COX BONEY

 

The passing of one of Madison Parish's beloved citizens saddened many hearts when news came of the death Sunday afternoon, July 13, of Mrs. R. K. Boney, in the Vicksburg Sanitarium.

 

Mrs. Boney had recently celebrated her 75th birthday, when her personal popularity was attested by many friends.

 

Funeral services were held Monday, July 14, at 5:00 p. m., from the Presbyterian Church of Tallulah, with Rev. David E. Holt, son-in-law of Mrs. Boney, and rector of the Texarkana Episcopal Church and Rev. H. N. Alexander of the Tallulah Presbyterian Church officiating. Choirs of the Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches sang. Interment followed in Silver Cross Cemetery.

 

Mrs. Boney was born in Clinton, Mississippi, February 14, 1866, and attended Hillman College and after graduation from this institution, taught in the college the following year.

 

She was before her marriage, Rena Belle Cox, and was married to the late Richard K. Boney April 27, 1896. After living in Washington for three years Mr. and Mrs. Boney moved to the Duckport Plantation, Madison Parish, where they made their home until 1922, when they moved to Tallulah.

 

Mrs. Boney lost a daughter, Dorothy, in 1912, who died at 11 years of age, while the family lived on Duckport Plantation. The sad and untimely death of her only son, Owen Hamilton Boney, occurred in Panama in 1940. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Will Sevier, Jr., and Mrs. David E. Holt of Texarkana, and four grandchildren, Dick Sevier, Dorothy Sevier, Sherrill Sevier and David E. Holt, Jr., of Texarkana.

 

Pallbearers were: Dr. H. S. Provine, C.C. Adams, Barton Sevier, Ralph Taylor, Tom Fortner of Monroe, Don Sevier of Vicksburg, and Albert Kirsch of Mound.

 

An outstanding club woman, Mrs. Boney has endeared herself locally in her untiring work in the Book Club, Garden Club, Eastern Star, American Legion Auxiliary, Cemetery Association and Presbyterian Church and Madison Parish Unit of the Louisiana Society for Crippled Children. She has served as officer in each of these and became prominent in state and national club work when, after serving as President of the Tallulah Book Club for two terms from 1926 through 1928, the attractive club house was built the following year. She was then elected to the office of president of the fifth district of Louisiana and in 1930 was elected state president of Louisiana Federated Clubs and was reelected the following tear. In this capacity, Mrs. Boney distinguished herself as a club woman, through the combination of her ability and her womanly charm. She later was named on the board of directors from Louisiana General Federation.

 

When the charter for the American Legion Auxiliary was made, Mrs. Boney was named first president, and after numerous other presidents she was again re-elected, and was the president of this organization for the past two years.

 

Typifying the southern lady, Mrs. Boney was at all times gracious, generous and thoughtful of others, both in her personal and public contacts.

 

In her private life she was a beloved wife and parent and was herself, ever loyal and devoted to her family.

 

From November 29, 1929 Madison Journal

 

NEW FEDERATION PRESIDENT WANTS ACTIVITY TO BEGIN

Mrs. Boney Asks Clubs To Support Convention Findings

(Times-Picayune)

 

A plea that organizations in the Louisiana Federation of Women's Clubs take cognizance of the recommendations and the resolutions adopted at the recent convention in Baton Rouge and plan effective work along those lines has been made by Mrs. Richard K. Boney of Tallulah, new President, in her first official post-convention statement.

 

Activities during the year will include completion of the Louis­iana Federation's endowment fund, organization of junior clubs if possible in connection with every adult club in the state, application of the universal membership basis to affiliated associations throughout Louisiana; and more thoroughly organized and active district federations, as suggested by the outgoing President in her convention address.

 

"The aftermath of a convention is retrospection and introspection,” Mrs. Boney writes. "In introspection one looks back on solved problems and the results developed and obtained. The retiring President, Mrs. A. M. Arthur, who has been so faithful to the aims and growth of the federation through the past four years, should be justly proud of achievements during her regime.

 

"Among them are the establishment of the Louisiana Clubwomen, which had been a federation project for years; the adoption of a recommendation for universal  membership, which will give Louisiana increased representation in the General Federation and place the state in line for more appoint­ments to general offices; and com­pletion of the $10,000 loan scholar­ship fund, so ably managed for so many years by Mrs. John Shuttle­worth of Shreveport.

 

"The endowment fund is almost completed and it is the present hope that our organization shall be on sound financial basis within the next two years."

 

The Louisiana Federation is composed of 136 clubs, all of which are working along community, social, literary, civic and educa­tional lines.

 

Music Wanted

 

Mrs. Boney, in asking the co­operation of clubs in carrying out the convention recommendations, especially urged attention to Miss Mary Mims' plea for "a singing federation" and to the need for a study of niothereraft and health, which was stressed by both Dr. Marie Long of Millikin, La., and Miss Agnes Morris of New Orleans and the State Board of Health.

 

The new President was First-­Vice-President at the time of her election. She had been President of the Fifth District Federation for three years and is a member of the Tallulah Book Club, of which she has been a member for eight years. She is Secretary of Christ­ian education and ministerial relief for the Red River Presbytery of the Southern Presbyterian Church, and is a worthy matron of the Order of Easter Star.

 

She is a witty President too. Her bon mot at the convention ban­quet was so spicely offered that it was happily received. It came after a certain amount of bicker­ing on the part of one or two members during the daily session and also after the introduction of Mrs. Ben Hooper, General Federation Chairman of International Relations, who would talk at the night session on "Worldy Amity."

 

"If we fight for anything," she declared, "let us fight for peace."