Jack F. Boyd
December 20, 2010
Laconia, NH—–Jack F. Boyd, 94, died at his home at the Taylor Community on Monday, December 20, 2010. He was predeceased by his wife, Marion S. Boyd, who died in 2006.

Jack was born on August 23, 1916 in Hartford, Conn., the son of Park and Minerva (Farley) Boyd. He was brought up in West Hartford and graduated from Kingswood School in 1935 and from Worcester Tech in 1939 with a degree in mechanical engineering. Upon graduation, he was employed as a tool designer by Colt Fire Arms Mfg. Co. in Hartford. During WWII, he headed up Colt’s Plant Engineering Dept. At the end of the war, he supervised the consolidation of their three plants and then served as Factory Manager during the transition from the manufacture of military arms to civilian production. He left Colt’s in 1947 and formed a highly successful industrial maintenance company which he later sold.

Jack married Marion Sage of Hartford in 1948. They moved to Hollis, Maine where he joined the management staff of Saco Lowell Shops. He carried out several major assignments before being appointed Superintendent of their newly formed machine gun plant. He left Saco Lowell in 1952 when he purchased Nashua Brass Co. in Nashua, N.H. and moved to Hollis, N.H. He served as President and CEO of Nashua Brass until he retired in 1970.

While living in Hollis, N.H., he became very active in municipal affairs. He served several years on the school board, the planning board and as Chairman of the budget committee. He was the owner’s representative in the construction of the first addition to the elementary school, the building of the former high school as well as the middle school. He served many years as a captain in the fire department and two years as the selectmen’s representative in overseeing the police department. On the state level, Jack was on several task forces studying several state functions and served two terms as a State Representative.

Since 1963, the family had a summer home on Camp Island in Lake Winnipesaukee and in 1976, they left Hollis and moved to a new home which he designed and built in Gilford, N.H.

Jack was an avid hiker completing and becoming a member of the 4,000 Footer Club. He was also an avid skier and was very active in the National Ski Patrol for thirty-five years. He was patrol director at Indian Head Ski Area before serving as section chief in the New Hampshire Region. When he gave up active patrolling in 1986, he organized the Ski Patrol Alumni Division in New Hampshire.

Jack belonged to Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Nashua Rotary Club and served on the executive board of the Daniel Webster Council of Boy Scouts. He belonged to several Masonic bodies, including the Shriners. He was always interested in wood and metal working, black smithing, hunting, fishing, canoeing and gardening and was a student of history. Jack and Marion travelled extensively and visited many parts of the world.

Survivors include Barbara Boyd Coye and her husband, Bill of Portland, Maine; Richard Boyd of Aspen, Colorado; Douglas Boyd and his wife, Diane, of Hollis, N.H; and Mary Boyd Young and her husband, Gary, of Brookline, N.H.; seven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.

There will be no calling hours.  A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 2:00PM at the Laconia Congregational Church, 69 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N. H. Rev. Dr. Warren Bouton, Pastor of the Church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Spring in the family lot in Pine Grove Cemetery, Gilford, N.H.

For those who wish, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to The Sunshine Fund at the Taylor Home, 435 Union Avenue, Laconia, N.H. 03246.
Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. is assisting the family with the arrangements. For more information and to view an online memorial click this link to the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home website.