Boyd E. White, 70 of Leavenworth, died Sunday, July 10, 2011.
He was born Sept. 18, 1940, in Emporia. He served in the U.S. Navy on the USS Coral Sea. Boyd was a supervisor in the gift wrap department at Hallmark Cards, Inc. in Leavenworth. After leaving Hallmark in 1986 he purchased Connell True Value Hardware in Cameron, Mo.
He worked many years in the printing industry and at the end of his long and successful career he was a sales manager at INX International Ink Company in Edwardsville.
Survivors include his wife of 48 years. Judy White, of the home; two children, Lori Van Fleet and her husband, Larry, Bonner Springs, and Boyd C. and his wife, Becky, Olathe; two sisters, Joyce Hanes, Le Roy, and Kay Baldwin, Emporia; and five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Alden-Harrington Funeral Home in Bonner Springs with burial of cremated remains to follow at a later date in the Big Creek Cemetery in Gridley.
The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m. prior to the service at the funeral home.
Memorials to American Cancer Society may be sent to the funeral home, 214 Oak St. Bonner Springs, KS. 66012.
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