Eloise W. Boyst

Edna Eloise Winslow Boyst, 89, of Jamestown, affectionately known as “Sis” to her family and “my Sis” to her brother Ed, died Monday, February 24, 2014 at Hinkle Hospice House in Lexington, NC of complications from Alzheimer’s. She was born at home in Jamestown, NC on February 2, 1925 to the late Thomas Alton Winslow and Edna Walker Bostick Winslow. After graduating from Jamestown High School in 1942, she began nurses’ training at Rex Hospital in Raleigh and afterwards joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. Eloise worked as a nurse in the office of Dr. Norman A. Fox, Sr. in Greensboro before leaving the profession to devote her life to raising her children. She was an accomplished seamstress and cook, and was known for her elaborate crocheted afghans, doilies and baby clothes. She was an active member of First Baptist Church of Jamestown, where she taught in the adult Sunday School program and served on various committees. She was a resident of Emeritus Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care in Greensboro from September 2012 until February 2014, when she moved to Hinkle’s Hospice Home in Lexington following a stroke.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a daughter, Susan Jane Boyst, four brothers, Thomas, Ed, George and Worth Winslow, and a sister, Joyce Winslow Hubbell. She is survived by her sister, Frances (Jeff) Traynham, her husband of 67 years, James O. Boyst, three daughters, Becky Boyst of Garland, Texas, Sara Boyst of Greensboro, and Patricia Boyst of Asheboro; two sons, John (Janet) Boyst of Winston-Salem and Benjamin Boyst (Pam) of Dunnellon, Florida, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews..

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday at the Hanes-Lineberry Funeral Home Sedgefield Chapel conducted by the Reverend Patrick DeVane. Interment will follow in Forest Lawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Thursday from 1:00 p.m. until service time.

The family would like to express its sincere appreciation to Elizabeth Ramsey, who cared for Eloise at home before she went to Emeritus, the staff and caregivers of Emeritus in Greensboro for their care, especially Vernell Mitchell, Brothel Foy, and Fran Tart, and the staff at Hospice of Davidson County.

In lieu of flowers memorials can be made in Eloise’s memory to the Hospice of Davidson County, 200 Hospice Way, Lexington, NC 27292