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Elwood and Doris Boyd

Featured in: January 2015

BOYD 65th

Elwood and Doris Boyd celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on Aug. 28, 2014. They met at Campion Academy in Loveland, Colo., in 1944. Elwood represented Campion at weekend seminars, while Doris played the piano for the quartet.

Both went on to Union College and graduated in 1951. They were called to ministry by the Nebraska Conference. Their average district was four churches.

They accepted an invitation from the Upper Columbia Conference in 1962 and pastored in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. After pastoring of 43 years, they retired in 1995 and now live in College Place, Wash.

Their children include Bruce, Canadian Union College University theology department chairman and assistant professor; Kim, a food process representative in Japan, China and Australia; Lynn, director of ADRA in Mozambique, Africa; Gail, a university voice instructor in San Antonio, Texas; Julie, Southern Adventist University voice instructor; and Kenny, Loma Linda (Calif.) University associate professor of psychology.