C. Rodney Boynton, 45, of Vermont, former editor of the Vermont Union, vice president of the Vermont State bank and a prominent Vermont business man, died Monday night at 10 o’clock at his home.
Death was attributed to a cerebral hemorrhage. Boynton had been ill for about three years following a brain operation and became worse two days ago.
Boynton was one of the founders of the Vermont Kiwanis club and was past president of that organization. He was instrumental in the formation of the Vermont State bank and was a member of the bank’s board of directors for several years.
He was the owner of the Whitney Dry Goods store in Vermont.
Boynton sold his interest in the Union, a weekly paper, four years ago, and retired at that time from the newspaper business.
Mr. Boynton was born Feb. 19, 1905 near Avon, a son of Dr. L. V. and Clara Staggs Boynton. He moved to Vermont as a boy and lived there for the greater part of his life. He married Miss Margaret Whitney in Vermont in 1928. She survives. He was a member of the Vermont Christian church.
Other survivors are his father of Peoria; his grandfather, V. C. Boynton, also of Peoria; a son, Rodney, now a student at Knox college in Galesburg; a daughter, Luan, who is living at home; and a brother, Edwin L. Boynton, Riverside, Calif.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Vermont Christian church, Rev. John R. Binkley officiating. Rev. Hugh Kelly will assist. Burial will be in the Vermont cemetery.
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