CAIRO, Ill. -- Funeral service for Boyce L. Hillyard of Cairo will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Barkett Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Bill Gholson will officiate, with burial in Green Lawn Memorial Gardens at Villa Ridge.
Friends may call at the funeral home from noon until service time Saturday.
Hillyard, 72 years old, died Wednesday, March 20, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.
He was a retired construction superintendent with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He was a member of First Southern Baptist Church, and had served as a deacon.
Survivors include a daughter, Mary Bryant of Bloomington, Ind.; a son, Boyce Hillyard of South Daytona, Fla., and four grandchildren.
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