Obituary

Funeral services for Roy Boles, 87, will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Wood-Dunning Colonial Chapel with Scott Greene of Stephenville officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Memorial Park by Wood-Dunning Funeral Home. Mr. Boles died at 8:10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2003, in Wichita Falls. He was born June 23, 1915, in Fluvanna. He moved to Plainview from Lovington, N.M., in 1946 and was involved in house construction. He worked at Wayland Baptist University from 1954 until retiring in 1981. He graduated from Wayland Baptist University in 1951 and served with the Sea Bees in the Navy during World War II. He was an ordained Baptist minister and member of College Heights Baptist Church for many years. On Dec. 28, 1936, he married Audrey Irene House in Mt. Pleasant. She died Dec. 16, 2000. Survivors include a daughter, Grace Patricia Carter of Fredericksburg; two sons and a daughter-in-law, Claude and Jan Boles of Wichita Falls and W.R. Boles of Borger; six grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. Five brothers and a son-in-law, Jerry Carter, are deceased. The family suggests memorials to a favorite charity or to the Roy and Audrey Scholarship Fund at Wayland Baptist University.
Plainview Daily Herald - Feb. 27, 2003