Mrs. Jacquelyn “Jackie” Tarkington Boyd, 82, of Greenville, also affectionately known as “Nana,” passed away unexpectedly at Vidant Medical Center on Monday, November 20, 2017.

A memorial service was held Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 4 PM in the Winterville Baptist Church. Burial will be private at a later date.

Mrs. Boyd was born in Belhaven, North Carolina on April 2, 1935 to Joseph “Ralph” Tarkington and Sibyl Andrews Tarkington. She was a loving homemaker for her husband and four children. She was a member of the Belhaven and Winterville Baptist Churches. She loved serving for her church family in numerous ways over the years, which included teaching Sunday school and Vacation Bible School, helping to prepare and serve food for weekly family night suppers and helping on the Grievance Committee. She was also particularly fond of all her Sunday school classmates. These “sisters” helped her so much during the recent passing of her beloved husband Roy.

Mrs. Boyd was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, William “Roy” Boyd.

She is survived by: son, Buddy Boyd of Greenville, NC; daughters, Cindy Boyd Leazer and husband, Jed, of Loveland, OH, Lee Boyd Hendrix and husband, Mark, of Elizabethtown, NC, and Lynn Boyd Baker of Greenville, NC; grandchildren, Brandy, Caroline and Travis Boyd, Jared (Tiffany) and Justin Leazer, and Meagan J. Finamore (Jason), Max, Ariel and Luke Hendrix; great-grandchildren, Haley, Asher and Willow Boyd, Brody and Jaelyn Leazer, and Colton, Nicholas and Katherine Finamore.

Flowers are appreciated or memorials may be made to Winterville Baptist Church.

Arrangements are by Wilkerson Funeral Home and Crematory.

Online condolences at www.wilkersonfuneralhome.com.