Penny Denise Boyd

Funeral services for Penny Denise Boyd, age 57 of Olla will be held 2:00 PM Tuesday May 14, 2024 from the Olla chapel of Riser & Son Funeral Home with Bro. Clay Hutto officiating. Interment will follow in the Nelson Cemetery , west of Olla. The Boyd Family will receive visitors on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 from 12:00 Noon until time of service.

Penny was born on January 31, 1967 at Columbia, LA to her beloved parents, the late J. D. Boyd and Lavada Taylor Boyd. She passed from this life on May 10, 2024 at the Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria following an extended illness.
She was preceded in death by her parents and by by her brother, Danny Boyd and by her two sisters, Cindy Boyd and Cathy Fincher and by her beloved husband, Alan Masters. Penny loved birds, she loved the beautiful things which graced her life daily.  Many of those things were just the simple , everyday things of life, as well as her patients she sat with and cared for. She truly was a caregiver at heart. She took great pride in her work and she was a very humble individual.  She lived to serve others.

Left to cherish her memory is her son, Justin McDaniel of Kentucky; her sister, Patty Emfinger (Kevin) of Olla; her aunt Mrs. Ruby Taylor and her very special aunt, Vergie Taylor;  host of nieces and nephews, Kurt Boyd, Kyle Boyd, Lance Coleman, Jennifer Fincher and Shane Lewis; her great nieces and nephews: Ryland Coleman, Harper Coleman, Layla Coleman, Lawson Coleman and Austin Lewis.

Serving as pallbearers will be Keith Newsom, Darrell Newsom, Kyle Boyd, Lance Coleman, Austin Lewis and Greg Schneider. Serving as honorary pallbearers will be Robert Blackwell and Fruit Taylor.