DONALD DAVID BOYER
DONALD DAVID BOYER OF CADET, MISSOURI, WAS BORN DECEMBER 17, 1945, IN BLACKWELL, MISSOURI, A SON OF THE LATE BURNHAM F. AND LILLIE M. (HUSKEY) BOYER. DONALD DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT HIS RESIDENCE ON JUNE 15, 2000, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF FIFTY-FOUR YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND TWENTY-NINE DAYS.
DONALD WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JUDY M. SAMPSON ON JULY 22, 1967, IN DESOTO, MISSOURI, AND TO THIS UNION SEVEN CHILDREN WERE BORN.
DONALD IS SURVIVED BY HIS LOVING WIFE, JUDY M. BOYER OF CADET, FOUR SONS, DONALD DAVID BOYER, II AND WIFE CINDY LANHAM OF DITTMER, KEVIN PAUL BOYER AND WIFE RUTH OF BEAUFORT, ANTHONY BOYER AND WIFE SHAWNA OF CHRISMAN, ILLINOIS, CHRISTOPHER BOYER AND FIANCÉ BARB CULLEY OF MINERAL POINT, TWO DAUGHTERS, SANDRA BOYER AND FIANCÉ KEVIN RENNICK OF CADET, MELISSA BOYER OF CADET, FIVE GRANDCHILDREN, TWO BROTHERS, TERRY JAMES BOYER AND WIFE MARY LOU OF FESTUS, BERNARD JUNIOR BOYER AND WIFE MONICA OF POTOSI, THREE SISTERS, SHIRLEY ALLISON AND HUSBAND RONALD OF SAN ANGELO, TEXAS, NORMA JEAN DECLUE OF CADET, LINDA BOLEY AND HUSBAND VERNON OF DESOTO, A SISTER-IN-LAW, LINDA SUE BOYER OF DESOTO, PARENTS-IN-LAW, LEO AND LUCILLE SAMPSON OF CADET AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS HE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE SON, THOMAS LEE BOYER AND ONE BROTHER, JERRY LEE BOYER.
DONALD WAS A MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD VETERAN HAVING SERVED FROM FEBRUARY 1966 TO OCTOBER OF 1971. DONALD HAD A GREAT LOVE FOR HIS FAMILY AND ESPECIALLY ENJOYED HIS GRANDCHILDREN. HE ENJOYED TAKING TIME TO SPEND FISHING AND HUNTING. DONALD HAD SPENT MANY HOURS DOING GENEALOGY WORK OF HIS FAMILY.
VISITATION WAS HELD MONDAY, JUNE 19, 2000, FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT MOORE FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
A FUNERAL MASS WAS CELEBRATED TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 2000, AT 10:00 A.M. AT ST. JOACHIM CATHOLIC CHURCH WITH FATHER TED PIEPER OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN ST. JOACHIM CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, DALE SAMPSON, TOM SAMPSON, JOHN GUENTHER, WILL ROGERS, CHARLIE BROWN, VERNON BOLEY, RON ALLISON AND JOE PETERS. SERVING AS HONORARY PALLBEARER WAS JIM SAMPSON.