January 29, 1939 Morningside Hospital, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Date and place of death
Marriage date December 7, 1957
place Wray, Colorado
Maiden name Donna Jeanne Garvin
Names of children Victoria Katherine Boyd
Theodore Lawrence Boyd
Names of parents Wells Freeman Garvin Betty (Fuggitt)
Marital status Married
Name of spouse Theodore Edward Boyd
Immigration information Born in USA
U.S. military service record None
Places the person lived Tulsa, Oklahoma, Idalia, Colorado,Tahlequah, Oklahoma, Jemez Springs, New Mexico, Long Beach, California, Huntington Park, California, San Pedro, California, Rosamond, California, Morgan City, Louisiana, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, Eunice, Louisiana,Monroe, Louisiana, Bakersfield, Missouri, Nauvoo, Illinois, Norwood, Missouri, Independence, Missouri
Where the person "fits" in our family
Tree. Donna is the oldest daughter of Wells and Betty Garvin, Wife of Theo E. Boyd, Mother of Viki and Ted Boyd, Grandmother of Josh and Jessie Grechus.
Among Donna's earliest memories are Christmas with the paternal grandparents and the Bishop cousins.
During WWII Wells was a radar instructor on Wart Island near Corpus Christi, Texas. The growing Garvin family lived in a tiny trailer. Family members at that time were:Wells, Betty, Donna, Carol and Bill who was born 1/26/46.
When Wells left the Navy and went to work for the telephone company, they were able to buy a small brick home in Tulsa which they sold to buy a larger home on 4th Street about the time Donna was in the 5th grade. The brick house had cost a year's salary, $5,000. There was no airconditioning, but Wells used the attic fan and pumps through seltzer in the windows to cool the house. They occasionally hosed the house to cool it on hottest days.
Wells began working for Shell Pipeline Company and Betty was active in PTA and community concerns. It was a friendly neighborhood. The children often played outdoor games in one yard or another.
Outdoors we played red rover, swinging statues, truth or dare, Mother May I, hide and seek, charades, badminton, croquet and softball.
When it was very hot or very cold, we played board games inside. One of the favorites was Monopoly. We were young enough that we did not know how to read numbers well. When someone landed on "Luxury tax" which was $75.00, we read it as $75,000 and ended the game. Donna and Carol were close enough in age and interests to play with the same neighborhood friends. Both on Admiral Boulevard and on 4th Street, the neighbors gathered to pool their fireworks.
The children from several blocks would gather to play together. When the Lyle family was the first to buy a TV, they has to step over aisles of kids every Saturday. 
Donna had eye surgery in the fall of second grade. This was to correct a cross eye. The photo was taken at that time.
Betty, Wells, Eileen and/or Katherine were there every visiting hour. Each time Donna slept, she thought it was a new day and askied Betty why she had not come in all those days. Katherine knew she liked the pop song "Civilization" and had it dedicated to Donna on the local DJ show. Wells used to tell Donna and Carol Don and Carl stories which had thinly disguised relevance to their relationship to each other and how to make it smoother.
Wells liked to play tennis. He and Betty played bridge and canasta with neighbors. There were many family game times. Croquet and badminton were outdoor favorites.
The badminton net was often left up in the front yard. One evening Donna and her high school beau Joe came home from a movie and impulsively decided to play badminton in the moonlight. Betty was not pleased. She wanted to know what the neighbors would think.
Donna was active in Future Teachers of America, the Usher Corps and the International Understanding Club at Will Rogers High. Betty was amicable to both of the girls having occasional friends overnight and a couple times a year, a sock hop in the Garvin livingroom. Betty's huge cookies and pleasant humor made her a welcome chaperone. Betty, Donna and Carol made good use of the summer bookmobile program. One could check out 6 books at a time. Donna would read all of hers and some of Betty's and Carol's before the bookmobile returned.
Donna's favorites were biographies. Betty loved historical fiction and often traded recommendations with Patti McManus, one of Donna's best friends who particularly enjoyed reading about the British royal family.
Betty was serving on a committee to keep pornographic literature away from the schools. Some of the parents objected to such comics as "Crypt of Terror" which delighted Betty. They were trying to get "Catcher in the Rye" banned in the schools. Betty refused to vote until she had read the book and pronounced it one of the best books she had every read. It is now required reading in many high schools.
Donna Jeanne Garvin 1957 Donna attended Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma graduating in 1956. She attended Oklahoma University at Norman, Oklahoma. While she was at OU, she lived in Oliver House and worked in the University Library. There on September 20, 1956 she received her first telegram which announced the birth of her brother Michael Kelly Garvin. In the summer of 1957 she met Theodore Edward Boyd at the Tulsa Public Library and they were married in Wray, Colorado by Elder Charles Zion. When they returned to Tahlequah, Oklahoma so that Theo could finish his B.A. college degree and begin his Master's degree, Donna's sister Kathy Lynn Garvin was born on July 25, 1959. Donna Jeanne Garvin 1957 Donna attended Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma graduating in 1956. She attended Oklahoma University at Norman, Oklahoma. In the summer of 1957 she met Theodore Edward Boyd at the Tulsa Public Library and they were married in Wray, Colorado by Elder Charles Zion. 
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