John Ward Boult

BOULT, John W. 84 of Tampa, passed away on October 15, 2017. He was born in Jackson, Mississippi and grew up in the Mississippi Delta town of Belzoni. He spent many happy holidays on vacations in his mother’s ancestral home in Como, Mississippi, a small town just south of Memphis. He attended college at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, where he graduated with honors. Thereafter, he attended Vanderbilt University Law School where he was Associate Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and where he met and married Jimmy Lou Foster, who was the only female student in his law school class. After law school, he entered the Navy officers Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, and was commissioned as a Lieutenant Junior Grade, and served for three years as an Appellate Attorney in the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy at the Pentagon. Upon his relief from active duty in the Navy, he served for a year as an Appellate Attorney with the Office of the United States Attorney General in Washington, D.C. In 1963 John and his wife and two children moved to Tampa, Florida where John practiced law until his retirement. During the last eleven years of practice, he was a member of the mediation group at the firm of Barr, Murman & Tonelli. In 2002, he published his memoir called “Sheltered Places” recalling his experiences in Delta and in College and Law School in Tennessee. John was preceded in death by his wife, Jimmy Lou and daughter, Alison Suder. He is survived by his son, Ward, son-in-law, Brad Suder and his grandchildren, Cameron and Shannon Suder. A memorial service will be held 11 am on Saturday, October 21st at St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 505 N. Marion Street, Tampa, FL. John will be laid to rest at a later date in Como Mississippi at Friendship Cemetery. Arrangements are under the care of Blount & Curry Funeral Home- Carrollwood Chapel. Online condolences can be expressed at www.blountcurrycarrollwood.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.blountcurrycarrollwood.com Tonelli. In 2002, he published his memoir called “Sheltered Places” recalling his experiences in Delta and in College and Law School in Tennessee. John was preceded in death by his wife, Jimmy Lou and daughter, Alison Suder. He is survived by his son, Ward; son-in-law, Brad and his grandchildren, Cameron and Shannon Suder. A memorial service will be held 11am on Saturday, October 21st at St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 505 N. Marion Street, Tampa, FL. John will be laid to rest at a later date in Como Mississippi at Friendship Cemetery. Online condolences can be expressed at www.blountcurrycarrollwood.com