Mr. Gerald Godfrey Boykin Sr. Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Funeral service for Mr. Gerald Boykin Sr. of Columbia, SC will be held on Saturday January 17, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. from Friendship Baptist Church, 1237 House Street, Columbia. Interment to follow in Promised Land Cemetery. Public viewing will be held on Friday January 16, 2015 from 12 noon to 7:00 p.m. at A. A. Dicks Funeral Home. Mr. Boykin entered into rest on Sunday January 11, 2015. A. A. Dicks Funeral Home Sullivan Chapel, 2548 Main Street, Columbia is in charge of these arrangements. Mr. Gerald Boykin Sr. was born November 29, 1965 in Blythewood, SC to Alexander Johnson and the late Jeanette Boykin but was reared by his maternal grandparents, the late John and Annette Peay Boykin. He attended the public schools of Richland County graduating with the Class of 1984 from Eau Claire High School. At the age of twenty, Mr. Boykin started his own painting company, Boykin & Paint, which lasted for twenty-five years. Big G”, as he was affectionately known, was a loving and devoted father, grandfather, son, brother, uncle, cousin and friend who greeted everyone with a smile and helping hand. He was also an active member of the PTA (Parent Teachers Association). Left to cherish precious memories are: his loving wife of seventeen years, Darryla Baxter Boykin; sons, Johnathan Taylor, Edward L. Baxter, Joshua Reese, Shannon Washington and Gerald G. Boykin, Jr.; daughters, Jeanette Boykin and Aisha Williams; father, Alexander (Patricia) Johnson; paternal grandmother, Rosa P. Johnson; brothers, Stanley (Stephanie) Boykin, Robert C. (Veronica) Cornelious, Stanley Hudson, Jimmy Vuncannon, Jason (Marissa) Ellis, Alex Burns and Chad Johnson; sisters, Jennifer (Alexander) Rose and Victoria Johnson; cousin, like a sister, Becky Harrison; mother-in-law; Fannie Mae Baxter; two sisters-in-law; a brother-in-law and a host of other relatives and friends.

Mr. Gerald Godfrey Boykin Sr.

November 29, 1965 - January 11, 2015