Calvin A. Boyle |
| Posted 2008-11-15 by Sharon |
| The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ May 12, 1961 Burial In Kansas For Calvin Boyle Rev. D. F. O’Sullivan conducted funeral services at 2 p.m. Monday in the Wickenburg Chapel for Calvin A. Boyle who died in Community Hospital, at 1:30 a.m. last Saturday. The body was then sent to Leavenworth, Kans., where graveside rites were to be conducted on Wednesday in the national cemetery there. Mr. Boyle was born January 16, 1897, in Evansville, Ind., but spent his youth in Leavenworth. He attended the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., resigned because of health, and later, during World War I., served in the Army. He worked for the telephone company in Kansas City, Mo., and the Ford Motor Co., in Detroit before becoming s surveyor for the federal government in it military establishment. In 1935 Mr. Boyle entered the federal prison service and was stationed at El Reno, Okla., until 1951 when he was moved to Texarkana, Texas, as associate warden. In May, 1951, he was transferred to Wickenburg when a federal prison camp was established at the municipal airport west of town. He retired December 21, 1955. During the past two years he was on staff of Wickenburg Frontier Motors. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Elks Lodge. Surviving are the widow, Barbara, tow sons, William of Norman, Okla., and Calvin A., Jr., who is a student at Arizona State university, Tempe; the mother, Mrs. William M. Boyle Sr., of Washington, D. C. and two brothers, William Boyle Jr., and Col. Russell Boyle both of Washington, D. C. See Also: Find a Grave |
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