Calvin Clay Boykin, Jr.

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Calvin Clay Boykin, Jr. passed away October 23, 2008, at his home in College Station, Texas. A vigil will be held at Memorial Funeral Chapel, 2901 Texas Avenue S., in College Station on Sunday, October 26, from 6 - 8 p.m. The funeral mass will be celebrated at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, 2541 Earl Rudder Freeway, College Station, Monday, October 27, at 10:30 a.m.. Burial will follow at College Station Cemetery. Cal was born March 1, 1924, to Rubye Opal (Heath) and Calvin Clay Boykin, Sr., in Roswell, New Mexico. He attended public schools in Rochelle and Big Spring, Texas, graduating from Big Spring High School in 1942, a year later than his class so he could play football for one more year with his younger brother, Bobby. He enrolled in the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas in College Station for two semesters prior to volunteering for the draft in 1943. Cal served as an armored recon car gunner and Section Sergeant with the 814th Tank Destroyer Battalion, attached to the 7th Armored Division in Europe during World War II. He landed on Utah Beach on August 7, 1944. His service saw him through four campaigns in Europe including the Ardennes-Alsace, participation in the defense of St. Vith, Belgium, with Task Force Jones and in the occupation of Germany. After the war, he returned to A&M. In 1946, while a student at A&M, he met the love of his life, Rosemary Elizabeth DePasquale, a graduating senior at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. After th

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