Floyd Ray Bolyard, 50, passed away on September 27, 2025, in Blue Springs, Missouri.
A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, October 4, 2025, at 9:00 AM at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 102 N. Bismark St., Concordia, Missouri.
Floyd Ray Bolyard was born on September 19, 1975, in Effingham, Illinois as the only son of his mother Juanita Jane Rhodes. His father, who later remarried, was Floyd Eugene Bolyard.
Floyd loyally followed his mother through various moves throughout Illinois, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Missouri. His mother was baptized into the Trinity Baptist church on May 4th, 1986, in El Reno, Oklahoma and again in Concordia, Missouri where she joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on August 19, 2007. Floyd Ray followed her in getting baptized on Oct 31, 2009.
Floyd liked talking about cars, collecting knives, and dreamed of starting a sand blasting business. Through all his moves, he managed to keep a table that he made in his high school woodshop class. He found support the last few years of his life in his dog, Fluffy, who he affectionately called “The Fluff”. He was always very devoted to his mother until her death.
Floyd was preceded in death by his parents, Juanita Jane Rhodes, who passed on June 28, 2024, and his father, Floyd Eugene Bolyard, who passed away on July 24, 2015; both sets of grandparents, Jerry Alvin Rhodes, Fanny Mae Jewell Rhodes, Floyd Fredrick Bolyard and Lilly Bernice Hamilton Bolyard; as well as a cousin, Janice Rhodes; and an aunt, Helen Rhodes.
Floyd is survived by a stepbrother, Michael Scott Bolyard; uncles Jerry Rhodes, Dean Rhodes, Danny Bolyard, and Rick Bolyard; an aunt, Tammy Thomas; and cousins, including Dawn Leverton-Vicarious, Amanda Lair, Dustin Rhodes, Jacob Rhodes, Courtney Armstrong, Steven Rhodes, Alex Etsinger, Bryan McConkey, Joshua Bolyard, Jason Bolyard, and Trish Vantine.
