Helen Sue Boyd Anders

Sue Boyd Anders

Helen Sue Williams Boyd Anders, 88, of Hendersonville, N.C., passed away peacefully Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010, at Elizabeth House, Four Seasons Compassion for Life.

A native of Virginia, she grew up in Jonesville Thompson Settlement Community, Lee County, taught in the Nelson County school system and retired to Henderson County, N.C., where she lived for the past 28 years. She was preceded in death by her husband of 38 years, the Rev. Hugh E. Boyd, who died in 1979. In 1986, she married Raymond R. Anders, of Henderson County, who died in 1994. She was the daughter of the late Henry Clint and Bobbie Collier Williams. She graduated from Virginia Intermont and the University of Virginia. She taught second grade at Fleetwood Elementary School in Virginia for 24 years. Sue had many interests and talents, including oil painting, collecting antiques, travel, music (playing both the organ and piano) and flower gardening. She was the right hand of the Rev. Boyd for 28 years at Jonesboro Church, serving as choir director, organist, pianist, Sunday school teacher and WMU director. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Hendersonville.

Survivors include her sons, John Lawrence Boyd and his wife, Ann, of Hendersonville, N.C., and Hugh Edward Boyd, of Savannah, Ga.; three grandchildren, Sue Boyd, of San Diego, Calif., and wife, Cyndi, Heather Wilson, of Charlotte, N.C., and husband, Demond, and Carrie Boyd, of Charlotte; six great-grandchildren, Latravis, Tristen and Brayden Wilson, of Charlotte, and Riley, Dylan and Cooper Boyd, of San Diego, Calif.; one sister, Alice Hedrick, of Jonesville; and several nieces and nephews.

Graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010, in Jonesboro Cemetery, with the Rev. John Campbell and Wayne Underwood officiating. The family will receive friends from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010, at Byrum Parr Funeral Home, Roseland.

Memorial contributions may be made to Four Seasons Hospice, 571 South Allen Road, Flat Rock, NC 28731.