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Obit GREENFIELD, Mass. -- Doris Lydia (Boyd) Giovanazzi, 91, of 69 Riddell St., and a resident of the Poet Seat Health Care Center, died Sunday, Feb. 19, 2006, at the nursing facility following a period of declining health. She was a native of Brattleboro, Vt., born there on Sept. 9, 1914, a daughter to Ralph A. Boyd and Minnie (Thurber) Boyd. She was educated in local public schools and was a graduate of Brattleboro High School, Class of 1933. She furthered her education by attending the Green Mountain College, in Poultney, Vt., and was a graduate of the Class of 1935. She moved to the Greenfield area in 1937 and worked for a period of time for Wilson's Department Store in the business office as an administrative clerk, cashier and switchboard operator. She then accepted a position with WMECO as a billing clerk and administrative assistant, a position she held until her retirement in the fall of 1974, following 35 years of service. She and her late husband, George F. Giovanazzi, owned and operated the former Greenfield Monumental Works, and she assisted her husband in the family business as bookkeeper, administrative clerk and secretary for some 17 years, retiring with her husband in 1987, when they sold the business. Mrs. Giovanazzi was married to her husband on June 24, 1954 in Holy Trinity Church, Greenfield, and they celebrated 40 years of marriage prior to his passing in September of 1994. She was a member of St. James Episcopal Church in Greenfield. She was a member of the Embroidery Club of Deerfield, member and former past president of the DAR, member and former board of director for the Farren Memorial Hospital Guild, member and former board of director for the Massachusetts SPCC and member and board of director for the Junior SPCC “Thrift Shop” and member and past president of the Greenfield “Lionettes.” Survivors include her devoted niece, Adele B. Hall of Montague; two grandnephews and three grandnieces; and several great grandnieces and nephews. Services will be private. She will be laid to rest with her late husband George in Calvary Cemetery in Greenfield, with rites of committal to be offered by the Rev. Fr. Frank Moss of St. James Episcopal Church. A memorial service will follow in the chapel of St. James Church in her remembrance. Brattleboro (Vermont) Reformer 20 February 2006. Hit "back" button to go Back Home |