Florence Joanne Midgley Boyd
Beloved wife, mother, grandmother
Florence Joanne Midgley Boyd, 86, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother, mother-in-law and friend, died Thursday morning, December 19, 2013, in Wesbury United Methodist Nursing Center, Meadville.
She was born July 15, 1927, in Heidelberg, daughter of George and Lorena Midgley.
She graduated from Bridgeville High School in 1945 and received her registered nurse diploma three years later.
On Oct. 12, 1948, she married the love of her life, the Rev. Gene W. Boyd. They spent 56 years together until he passed away in 2002.
During her life, she worked 55 years in the nursing profession, offering help and comfort to many in City Hospital and Hillside Home, both in Meadville.
Other interests included singing in the Fifth Street Presbyterian Church choir, reading, tending to her flowers and spending time with family and friends.
Surviving are her five children, Carolyn Holmes of Washington, Dr. Cathy Owens of Hermitage, Cynthia (Richard) Leavell of Corvallis, Ore., David Boyd of Washington and Douglas (Judy) Boyd of Sterling, Va.; 10 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.
Mrs. Boyd had a life full of love and happiness and will be missed dearly.
Family and friends may call from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the time of service, Monday, December 23, in Dickson Funeral Home & Crematory, 130 North Second Street, Conneaut Lake, with the Rev. Mark Frailey of Fifth Street Church, Conneaut Lake, officiating. Burial will be in Lakeview Cemetery, Conneaut Lake.
Please sign a guest book at hatheway-tedesco.com.
Arrangements are entrusted to Dickson Funeral Home & Crematory, Rocco R. Tedesco III, supervisor, 130 North Second Street, Conneaut Lake, PA 16316.