Betty Bryan Boynton

She was born March 11, 1929, in Quitman, Texas to Virgil Bryan and Emma Maye Shaw. Graduating valedictorian, she attended Baylor University where she was a member of the Athenian sorority and a music major. She married James Douglas Boynton and transferred to the University of Texas where he was a student. There she earned a degree in speech pathology and worked in the state capitol while James completed his engineering degree. Their early married years involved moving around the state, from Gainesville to Corpus Christi to Houston, at the behest of his employer, Chevron Oil Company. They had two children, Jan Kathryn and James Bryan, and settled in Houston in 1960. Sally had a lovely soprano voice and sang in the church choir in each town where they lived. The family joined Tallowood Baptist Church in 1960 and Sally taught children’s Sunday School, Vacation Bible School, and children’s choir. She played bridge and tennis and drank coffee with the neighbors and they shared friendships with other Chevron associates. The family moved to San Antonio in 1971, but returned to Sugar Land a few years later, following employment changes in the drilling business. Sally was widowed at 56 and lived alone for the next 40 years. She spent time with her children and grandchildren, travelled around the world, volunteered for Taping for the Blind, reading the Wall Street Journal over the radio each week, and, of course, continued to play bridge, teach Sunday School, and sing in the Tallowood choir. She retained their longstanding season tickets to Longhorn football games and searched for friends who would accompany her on fall weekends. In 2021, when her Sugar Land home flooded during the great Texas power grid failure, she moved to Parkway Place where she lived the rest of her life.

Sally is survived by her children : Jan Boynton Davis and husband, Richard Carl Davis Jr, of Houston and James Bryan Boynton of San Antonio, five grandchildren: Gregory Bryan Davis and wife, Sara Richey Davis; James Scott Boynton and wife, Nicole Hill Boynton; Richard Clay Davis and wife, Jessica Glosson Davis; Sarah Boynton Gibbons; and William Andrew Boynton and eight great grandchildren: Emma Boynton, Jackson Davis, Logan Davis, Eliza Boynton, Annie Gibbons, Walker Davis, William Davis, and Wade Davis. She is preceded in death by her husband James Douglas Boynton, her daughter-in-law, Cindy Feste Boynton, and grandson-in-law, John Edward Gibbons.

Funeral services will be Wednesday, February 11 at 11 AM at Tallowood Baptist Church, 555 Tallowood Drive. Burial will be the following day at Concord cemetery near Quitman, Texas