Marjorie Lucinda Boyd

F, b. 22 February 1890, d. 4 August 1971
     Marjorie Lucinda Boyd was born on 22 February 1890 in Russell County, Alabama.

Marjorie married William Marshall Burt III, son of William Marshall Burt II and Annie Maria Vann, on 15 August 1917 in Russell County, Alabama. After their marriage they returned to William's home in Pittsview to live happily together at "The Oaks" for 54 years.1

Marjorie Lucinda Boyd died on 4 August 1971 in Russell County, Alabama, at age 81. She was buried in Pittsview Cemetery.

Her obituary appeared 12 August 1971 in the Phenix Citizen-Herald, published in Phenix City, Alabama. Mrs. Marjorie Boyd Burt of Pittsview, Alabama, died at The Medical Center in Columbus, Ga., on August 4. Funeral services were held at 11:30 EDT at the Pittsview Methodist Church with Rev. Jessie Shackleford officiating; Internment followed the church services in the Pittsview Cemetery.

The following grandsons served as active pallbearers: Marshall Murry Boon, John B. Lowery, III, William Marshall Lowery, Lindsey Neill Bickerstaff, Jr., John Randall Simmons, and Burt Boyd, nephew.

Mrs. Burt was born, in Cooksville, Tenn., daughter of the late Judge Alvin Whitten and Mary Goodpasture Boyd. Mrs. Burt had lived in Pittsview for the past 54 years where she had been active in all civic. religious, and community affairs.

Survivors include her husband, William Marshall Burt, Jr., three daughters, Mrs. Virginia Burt Lowery and her husband, John E. Lowery Jr., Mrs. Alline Burt Nourse and her husband Forrest H. Nourse, Jr., and Mrs. Marjorie Burt Boon and her husband George M. Boon all of Pittsview; a brother, Grover Boyd, Knoxville, Tenn., a sister Miss Ova Boyd, Cooksville; five grandchildren, Mrs. Lindsey Neill Bickerstaff, Jr. of Columbus, Marshall Murry Boon of Atlanta, Mrs. John Randall Simmons of Gainesville, Fla.John E. Lowery III and William Marshall Lowery, both of Pittsview, Ala; and two great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Last Edited=14 May 2019

Children of Marjorie Lucinda Boyd and William Marshall Burt III

Citations

  1. [S503] Russell County Heritage Book Committee, Heritage of Russell County, "William Henry Marshall Burt, Sr." by Ellen Martin of Pittsview, pg. 227.

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