Lela Marie "Dolly" Boyd

Lela Marie "Dolly" Boyd, 94-year-old Adair resident, passed away on Sunday, September 22, 2024, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Tulsa. She was born on September 8, 1930, in Wagoner to Joe Bennett Murphy and Lu Liza Copple Murphy. Dolly graduated from Wagoner High School, later she married Vene D. Boyd in May of 1949, he preceded her in death on July17, 2014. Dolly worked as Residential Counselor in the substance abuse facility at Eastern State Hospital in Vinita for many years, before retiring from there. She was a faithful member of the Pryor Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dolly loved serving others and spent countless hours doing so, she had many grandchildren some of her own and many that adopted her as their grandmother.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Vene Boyd, and her fifteen siblings.
The family includes her daughter Deborah Ann Fuller and husband Daniel of Pryor, sons, Gary Allen Boyd and wife Sandy of Galveston, Texas and Charles Boyd of Adair, eight grandchildren, Lisa Scraper, Daniel Fuller, Jeffery Fuller, Brian Fuller, Spencer Boyd, Dusty Kramer, Veronica Ripple, Nathan Underwood, twenty-two great grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be held at 2:00 p.m. Friday, September 27, 2024, at the Pryor Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Interment will follow at the Adair Cemetery, Adair, Oklahoma. Online condolences may be made at www.stephens-key.com or on the funeral home Facebook page. Arrangements are in care of Stephens-Key Funeral and Cremation Care of Pryor. "Family owned and operated."