Boyd J. Paulson

Boyd J. “Cotton” Paulson died October 9 at the Robert J Dole Veteran Hospital in the Hospice Care Center. He was born to the late Emmett and Lillian Rhoades Paulson on August 7, 1925. Cotton was one of ten children. He spent his youth between a home in Newton and the family farm east of Elbing, Ks. Boyd attended McKinley Elementary School in Newton, The Lone Star Country School, Whitewater High School and Kimper Military Academy in Booneville, Missouri.
Cotton served in the Army from 1943 through 1955 in Europe, Japan and Korea. He loved his country and served as an honor guard at funerals for a number of years in Newton.
Everyone who knew Cotton knew of his loving for fishing. Sometimes he would just catch the fish and stock someone’s pond.
You would see his beloved truck with his American flags flying as he drove around Newton.
He is survived by his sister, Phyllis Roberts, two sons, Boyd and Lynn of Texas, one cousin, Bernice Paulson and his favorite nephew, Richard “Rick” Roberts. He was loved dearly and will be missed by his many nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews and his abundance of friends. Memorials can be made to the Hospice Center at the Robert J Dole Veteran Hospital in Wichita.
A memorial service will be held Monday 11:00 A.M. at Broadway Colonial Funeral Home in Newton. His ashes will be scattered at a private small service on the Paulson Farm east of Newton.