Doris Maxine Boyce

Doris Maxine (Forbes) Boyce passed away Jan. 31, 2018 in Shoreline, WA at the age of 87. She had been in long-term care at CRISTA Senior Living since October 2016, due to the fact that she was suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease.  Doris was born on Dec. 20, 1930, in Albuquerque, NM, the third daughter of Harold and Etta Forbes. She grew up in Topeka, KS with her older sisters Norma Jean and Lois and her younger brother David.  In 1940, the family moved to Seattle, WA, where Doris attended Roosevelt High School, graduating in 1948.  After high school, Doris went to work at the Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Seattle.  At the age of 16, she first met Clayton Boyce at the Greenlake Church of Christ where her family attended.  A few years later, on June 18th, 1949, Doris and Clayton were married in the Greenlake church at its new location just off of N 45th St.  Lewis Oldham was the preacher who performed the ceremony. Doris and Clayton shared 68 years together, raising two boys and one daughter, and enjoying many dear friends and wonderful times. Doris is survived by her husband Clayton, her sons Stephen Wayne Boyce and John Harold Boyce, her daughter Susan Elizabeth Vincent, her brother David Forbes of Mt. Vernon, 10 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.  

Doris was a woman of great faith who always showed the love of Christ to everyone whose life she touched.  She was a stay-at-home mom and, among other things, a marvelous cook.  One of the family’s fond memories is the smell of her roast beef dinner wafting through the house when they would come home from church on Sunday mornings.  Doris loved singing and crossword puzzles, books and TV shows, and above all, her family and friends.  Family was extremely important to her and she dearly loved not only her immediate family but her extended family of many cousins, aunts and uncles, as well as her church family.  She was a woman of great wisdom, wise counsel and a wicked sense of humor.  She was the center hub of the family, the glue that held everything together, and Clayton was simply not completely whole during those few occasions when they had to be apart for any length of time.  She will be greatly missed.