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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/17/2025)

THE PARIS NEWS, July 24, 2011, p. 5A:  "Terrell Boyd, 89, of Paris, passed from this life unexpectedly on Friday, July 22, 2011,at Paris Regional Medical Center. Arvin Starrett and Marcus Roden of Starrett Funeral Home are to conduct funeral services at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 27, at First Baptist Church, with the Rev. Ken Cannon and Dr. Tommy Turner officiating. The body are to lie in repose in the church for one hour prior to the service. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery.  The family is to receive friends from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. He was born July 17, 1922, in Yantis, the son of Jacob Pinkny and Lulu Media Bevill Boyd. Drafted into the U.S. Army in the spring of 1942, he served in the European Theater and was in the landing at Normandy on D-Day. He then served under Gen. George S. Patton throughout the remainder of his service. In October 1945, he was discharged at Camp Fannin in Tyler. During his military career, his achievements included the Purple Heart, five Bronze Stars (Normandy, Northern France, The Battle of the Bulge, The Rhineland, Central Europe) two Bronze Stars, Combat Infantry Badge, Good Conduct Badge and assisted in the liberation of two concentration camps. He traveled with his family in 2009 to France and was awarded the French "Chevalier" of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Defense. He started the department of jewelry and horology at Paris Junior College as part of the V.A. plan for wounded veterans in the 1950s. In the 1960s he was given awards for this work by presidents Kennedy and Nixon. He was a member of First Baptist Church, where he served as a deacon for more than 50 years and was a member of the Bob Phillips Sunday School class. His greatest joys were his work and his family. He married Dorothy J. Stinson on Nov. 7, 1952, in Paris. He was preceded in death by five brothers, Oscar Boyd, Arthur Boyd, Burl Boyd, Harvey Boyd, and Clyde Boyd; and by one sister, Stella Gieck. Survivors include his wife, Dorothy, of the home; three sons, Gary Boyd and Craig Boyd and wife, Maudie, all of Tyler, and Alan Boyd and wife, Sherrie, of Paris; six grandchildren, Kristin Williams and husband, Justin, Jason Boyd, Shannon Boyd and wife, Kristin, Courtney Boyd, Allison Hanley and husband, Matt, and Jordan Boyd; his twin brother, Merrell Boyd and wife, Virginia, of Paris; a sister, Frances Simmons, of Granbury; and numerous nieces and nephews. Serving as pallbearers are grandsons and grandsons-in-law and Pete Taylor. Named as honorary pallbearers are Jerry Stephens, Phil Marsh, members of the Bob Phillips Sunday School class and the deacons of First Baptist Church."  Transcribed by Mary J. Tallant.

Information from Dorothy Boyd,  dotboyd@suddenlink.net, 4 Jun 2012:  Terrell Boyd is buried in Lot 40, Block 61 at Evergreen Cemetery in Paris.