Joseph Boyer

JOSEPH CLIFFORD BOYER
JOSEPH "BUTCH" BOYER OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, WAS BORN MAY 2, 1941, IN OLD MINES, MISSOURI, A SON OF THE LATE CLAUDE B. AND AGATHA VELMA (THEBEAU) BOYER. BUTCH DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT DESLOGE HEALTH CARE CENTER ON NOVEMBER 6, 1999, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND FOUR DAYS.
BUTCH WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO ALMA CHARBONEAU ON FEBRUARY 6, 1960, IN OLD MINES, MISSOURI, AND TO THIS UNION FOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN.
BUTCH IS SURVIVED BY HIS LOVING WIFE, ALMA BOYER OF POTOSI, ONE SON, JOSEPH A. BOYER AND HEATHER OF POTOSI, ONE DAUGHTER, DIANA FARMER AND HUSBAND SCOTT FARMER OF BRANSON, SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN, TRACY, JULIE AND ZACHARY FARMER, JEREMY, JODI, LACEY AND CORTNEY BOYER, TWO BROTHERS, PAUL BOYER AND WIFE JO ANN OF FENTON, JAMES BOYER AND WIFE KAREN OF FARMINGTON, THREE SISTERS, CYRILLA BOYER OF CADET, VERONICA JULIETTE OF POTOSI, MARY PAT PRATT AND HUSBAND MIKE OF HANFORD, CALIFORNIA, HIS STEP MOTHER, DOROTHY BOYER OF CADET AND BY MANY NIECES, NEPHEWS, OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS HE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY TWO SONS, TIMOTHY WAYNE BOYER AND DAVID JAMES BOYER.
BUTCH WAS A MEMBER OF THE FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH WHERE HE LOVED SINGING ALONG WITH THE GREAT GOSPEL MUSIC. A MEMBER OF POTOSI MASONIC LODGE # 131 A.F. & A.M. WHERE HE WAS INITIATED MAY 13, 1977, PASSED ON JUNE 24, 1977 AND RAISED ON JULY 22, 1977, HIS DEDICATION TO THE WORKS OF THE MASONIC ORGANIZATION LEAD HIM TO STRICT BELIEFS AND AN HONOR TO SERVE MASONRY IN HIS MANY YEARS OF MEMBERSHIP. HE WAS A PAST MASTER OF THE POTOSI LODGE.
BUTCH HAD A GREAT LOVE FOR ALL THE GIFTS OF MOTHER NATURE HE ENJOYED CAMPING, FISHING IN HER BEAUTIFUL STREAMS AND LAKES, RIDING HORSES AND FOUR WHEELERS THROUGH HER MANY TRAILS.
BUTCH HAD A GREAT LOVE FOR HIS FAMILY AND ENJOYED SPENDING TIME WITH ALL OF THEM, HE ESPECIALLY HELD DEAR TO HIM THE TIME HE WAS ABLE TO SPEND WITH HIS GRANDCHILDREN.
VISITATION WAS HELD SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1999, FROM 2:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT MOORE FUNERAL HOME, IN POTOSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1999, AT 2:00 P.M. AT THE POTOSI FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH WITH REVEREND MIKE JARVIS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS CALVARY CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, JEREMY BOYER, ZACHARY FARMER, JIM BOYER, PAUL BOYER, KENNY BOURISAW, DONALD SHEPARD, ED ROWE, OLIVER CROCKER, RUSSELL BREAKFIELD, BURGESS BARTON, LARRY CHARBONEAU AND MIKE PRATT.