Frances Booher-Boyd Schumm

Frances Booher-Boyd Schumm obituary, Waco, TX

Frances Booher-Boyd Schumm

Frances Schumm Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers on Dec. 6, 2009.
Frances Booher-Boyd-Schumm April 20, 1918 - December 6, 2009 Frances Booher-Boyd-Schumm of Waco passed away Sunday, December 6, 2009, at Providence Hospital. Services will be at 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, December 8, at Waco Memorial Park with the Minister Kennth Maddox officiating. Burial will follow. Visitation will be from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 8, at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Garden Room. Frances was born April 20, 1918, at 1118 Herring in Waco to Army Colonel Frank and Hattie Booher. She worked as a photographer and in the photography industry. Frances was a member of the Church of Christ. She lived most of her life in the Waco area, Irving, Euless, and Atlanta, Georgia, and for the last seven years in Aiken, South Carolina; then moved back to Waco in 2009. She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank and Hattie Booher; and husband, Carl Bernice Boyd; and two sisters, Thelma Richmond and Estrella Ziegenbalg. She is survived by two sons, Stanley Christian Boyd and wife, Gayle, of Wills Point , TX, and Frank Elbert Boyd and wife, Maureen, of Flintstone, GA; two daughters, Suzette Donaldson and husband, Greer, of Lorena, TX, and Carolyn Bernice Presley and husband, William, of North Augusta, SC; a brother, Sylvester Booher of Riesel, TX; eleven grandchildren; and twenty-eight great-grandchildren. The family invites you to leave a message or memory in our "Memorial Guestbook" at www.wilkirsonhatchbailey.com.

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