LEWANDA BOYD
ALLEN-Services for Lynnye Lewanda Boyd, 84, of Allen, are 10:00 a.m. Friday at the Richmond Avenue Free Will Baptist Church, Revs. Chris Brannon and Buddy Drake and her grandson, Josh Tatum will officiate. Burial will follow at the Allen Cemetery. The Family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Thursday at the Criswell Chapel in Allen.
Mrs. Boyd died Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at an Ada nursing home. She was born October 31, 1928 in Oden, Arkansas to Jeff and Lucille Weems Cagle. She moved to Allen as a child. She attended McCall's Chapel grade school, Sasakwa and Allen schools. She received her G. E. D. and learned how to swim when she was in her 70's.
She married Earl Boyd on April 18, 1945. He preceded her in death on October 27, 1995. Mrs. Boyd was a homemaker, an avid baker, baking wedding and birthday cakes and a member of the Allen Family, Community and Education Club (formerly the Homemaker's Society). She was of the Baptist faith.
Survivors include three daughters, Janice Potter and husband George, Indianola, Mississippi, Carol Jarrett and husband Ed, Ada and Connie Tatum and husband Bill, Ada; three sons, Danny Boyd and wife Jessie, Allen Eddy Boyd, Guthrie, and Dale Boyd and wife Sharon, Durant; two brothers, Bill Wayne Tygart, Ft. Smith, AR, and Roger Hinchey, Grove, OK; 14 grandchildren; and 19 great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a daughter, Earlene Boyd in 1949, a brother, Roy Hinchey, and two half-brothers, Grady Cagle and Luther Cagle.
Bearers will be Lee Jarrett, Scott Jarrett, Lance Tatum, Josh Tatum, Johnny Boyd, Jimmy Boyd, Tyler Jarrett and Tanner Jarrett.
Obituaries may be viewed and online condolences sent to criswellfh.com.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada