Dan Mahanay Boulware

1945 - 2016

Dan Mahanay Boulware, 70, died Thursday, March 17, 2016, in Cleburne. Service: 11 a.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church of Cleburne. The Rev. Dr. Robert Herzig will officiate; assisted by the Rev. Dr. Lamar E. Smith. Interment: Rosehill Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Rosser Funeral Home. Memorials: First United Methodist Church, 1300 W. Westhill Drive, Cleburne, Texas 76033, or Office of Advancement, Texas Wesleyan University, 1201 Wesleyan St., Fort Worth, Texas 76105. Dan was born in Beaumont on Nov. 9, 1945, the son of Alline Mahanay Boulware and Vernon Eugene Boulware. Dan married Barbara Bedsworth on Aug. 24, 1968, in Fort Worth. He was a graduate of Cleburne High School and attended Texas Wesleyan University from 1964 to 1967. Dan then attended Baylor Law School in Waco, earning his juris doctor in August 1969. Dan served as county and then district attorney before becoming a partner in the firm of MacLean & Boulware. During his law practice, Dan was named 1988 Texas War on Drugs prosecutor and served as president of the Texas District & County Attorneys Association in 1991. He was named 1992 Prosecutor of the Year by the Criminal Justice Section of the State Bar of Texas and was a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (1994 to the present). Dan was also a member of the State Bar of Texas Committee on Legal Service to the Poor in Civil Matters (2003 to the present) and was director for the State Bar of Texas for District 7-A (2000-2003). He was trustee of the Texas Bar Foundation (2003-2006). Dan served in many other capacities. He served over 20 years as a trustee for Texas Wesleyan University and was currently vice chairman of the board of trustees (2014-2016). He had also served as secretary (2009-2013), chairman of the Advancement Committees and was a member of Finance and Audit Governance and Executive Committees. Dan proudly served his country in the Texas National Guard and was a member of First United Methodist Church of Cleburne. He was preceded in death by his parents. Survivors: wife, Barbara Boulware of Cleburne; sons, Robert Boulware and wife, Anna, and Charles Boulware and wife, Jane Erwin, all of Fort Worth; daughter, Kathleen Kyzar and husband, Chad, of Fort Worth; grandchildren, Claire and Andrew Kyzar, Charlie and Josephine Boulware, and Mahanay Boulware; sister, DiAnn Boulware Hyde and husband, Frank, of Cleburne; and numerous nieces and nephews.