Kimberly Ann Boswell was born October 13, 1960 in Erick, Oklahoma to
Louise and Walter Perry. She passed away February 18, 2000 at her home
in the Grimes community at the age of 39 years, 4 months and 5 days.
Kim gre up at Sweetwater and attended school there graduating from
Sweetwater High School in 1978. She contiuned her education at Sayre
Junior College and Southwestn Oklahoma State University and received
her B.S. in Psychology and a minor in Socail Work in 1990. She was
married to Mark Boswell at Sweetwater, OK on March 7, 1981 and they
lived in the Grimes community. She worked at Grand Place Nursing
Center in Sayre as the Activities Director. In 1991, she began working
for the Department of Humand Services as a Social Worker at the Sayre
office before transferring to the Cheyenne office in November of 1993.
Kim enjoyed athlectics and was an avid volleyball player and excelled
at basketball while she was in high school. She was a board member of
the Cheyenne All Sports Associaiation. She was also an active
supporter of her children;s FFA, 4H, and school athletics and
activities. She was seen many times as a "taxi driver' in the Cheyenne
and Sweetwater communitites, transporting kids to and from their
activites. Her hobbies included reading and helping her brothers at
their dairy farms on the weekends.
She was a wonderful wife, mother, daughter, sister, grandmother and
aunt who will be missed by all of her family, especially by her
nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews, who she set an
example for through her leadership abilities.
She is survived by her husband, Mark, of the home; 3 children, Tara
Dawn Boswell, Trevor Mark Boswell, both of the home, Donald Leach and
wife, Brandi, of Hammon, OK; 1 grandson, Tanner Mark Leach of Hammon,
OK; her parents, Walter and Louise Perry of Sweetwater, OK; 1 sisters,
Barbara Kay Estes of Amarillo, TX, Debara Beth Wallace of Yarbrough,
OK; 3 btoehrs, Steven Walter Perry, Stanley Kent Perry and Gene
Marshall Perry, all of Sweetwater, OK; her mother and father-in-law,
Melba Ruth and Eldon Boswell, of Cheyenne, OK; many nieces, nephews;
special friends, Wenona Scrivner and Radonna Smith; and a host of
other relatives and friend.