Name: Boyle, Grace Lucille(Bell)
Burial Date: 1943, 07/21
Age at Death: 39
Plot Location: 659 F
Notes: 1st wife of Rev. Samuel Eugene Boyle
Grace Bell, daughter of Elder Bell of the 2nd Philadelphia Reformed Presbyterian congregation, married Rev. Samuel Boyle in September, 1934. She was his companion in his missionary labors. Two children were born to this union; Robert Scott, in Hong Kong on January 9, 1937, and baby, JoAnne, who died at birth, in Sterling at the same time Mrs. Boyle passed away in July, 1943. Mr. Boyle served as pastor of the Sterling, Kansas Reformed Presbyterian congregation from 1942-1945, when he resigned to take up work with the Christian Amendment Movement.
In 1945 Samuel Boyle married Grace Eleanor Robb, another missionary to China, and together they had three girls and one boy and son Scott from Sam’s first marriage. Grace Eleanor died on September 1, 1987 and was buried in Overland Park, Kansas.
Samuel Boyle and Orlena Marie Lynn married in 1992. They had known each other as missionaries in China. Sam and Orlena lived their last years together at the Reformed Presbyterian Home in Pittsburgh, PA where Sam died in 2002. Orlena died in 2018 and is buried in her home town of Sparta, Illinois where several of Sam’s family is also buried.
Samuel Eugene Boyle is buried with his second wife, Grace Eleanor in Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas.
|
|||||||||||||||
