Alva Review-Courier -

Rex Boswell, 93, died peacefully on January 1, 2021, in Greenville, Texas, after a valiant battle with cancer. Rex will be dearly missed by his family and those friends and acquaintances he leaves behind.

Rex was born on December 4, 1927, and raised on a farm north of Waynoka near Avard, Oklahoma. Except for the last two years of his life, Rex lived his entire life on that farm. After graduating from high school in Avard, Rex spent his working life as a farmer in Woods County. Rex's grandparents, Frederick and Elizabeth Hamel and Henry and Eliza Boswell, were among the pioneering families o...