Alyce Boyd

Funeral: 10 a.m. Thursday at at Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel. Interment: Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral chapel.

Ruby Alyce Simmons Boyd was born in Fort Worth on Aug. 6, 1931, daughter of Joseph Kelly and Ruby McCreary Simmons, both deceased. After graduating from high school in Gilmer, she attended East Texas Baptist College and Baylor University. She worked in Dallas for Saladmaster Sales and Gibraltar Life Insurance, before marrying Obie Dale Boyd of Arlington in 1954. He passed away in 2008. They were residents of East Fort Worth for over 50 years and had been married 54 years at the time of his death. Alyce retired from General Foods Corporation/Kraft Foods after 30 years. Not ready to rest she worked for Myers & Porter Law Firm for two years and Riverbend Bank for seven years.

In 1994 Alyce became very involved in Ryanwood Neighborhood Association serving as president for 16 years. She also helped organize, as well as serve as president of Northeast Republican Club, Airport Cities Republican Women (now Metroplex Republican Women) and Tarrant Star Republican Women. For 38 years she assisted her husband, precinct chair and election judge, in their precinct. She served as executive secretary of East Fort Worth Business Association for nine years, patrolled for Citizens On Patrol for many years, was a graduate of Fort Worth Citizens Police Academy, and served on several committees with the Police Department in East Fort Worth. She was a strong advocate and never ceased to promote East Fort Worth whenever possible, representing them on the city's Sustainability Committee and on the Parks Board as an appointee of Councilman Danny Scarth. She also volunteered for Meals on Wheels for several years.

Survivors: She leaves her stepbrother and first cousin, Dr. Joseph S. McCreary; stepsisters/first cousins, Ruth McCreary Koon and Jean McCreary Bergman; sisters-in-law, Nelma Boyd Bowers and Bonnie Boyd Chambers; 11 nephews and spouses; seven nieces; and a host of great-nephews and great-nieces, as well as many friends.