Betty Jean Boyd, 78 of Irondale, Ohio passed away Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at Valley Hospice Care Center North, Steubenville. She was a Valedictorian of her graduating class at Bergholz High School, a seamstress and was a homemaker. Wife of deceased Mst. Gy. Sgt. John M. Boyd whom she traveled with extensively through thirty years of military service. Betty was born December 13, 1929 in East Springfield, Ohio, a daughter of the late Clifford Earl and Freda VanWy White. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, John M. Boyd, an infant son Roger Boyd, son Halford M. Boyd, a brother and sister-in-law Mervin and Louis White. She is survived by two sons, Robert M. Boyd of Irondale, OH and John (Marcia) Boyd, Jr. of Woodbridge, VA; a daughter, Virginia (Curt) Glenn of Irondale, OH; half-brother, Ronald Earl (Eleanor) White of Warwood, WV; half-sister, Bonnie (Bob) Hatcher of Grove City, OH. Beloved Gram of eight grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren. Private family services will be held at the Everhart-Bove Funeral Home, 110 West Main St., Richmond with burial at Mt. Zion Cemetery, Irondale. View obituary and send condolences online at www.everhart-bovefuneralhomes.com.

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