June 17, 1944 – Feb. 8, 2017

NATCHEZ — Services for Carrie Ann “Tensey” Boyte, 72, of Natchez, who died peacefully Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, at Baton Rouge General Bluebonnet, after a brief struggle with cancer, will be 11 a.m. Monday at Trinity Episcopal Church with the Rev. John Hamilton officiating.
Burial will follow at Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Laird Funeral Home.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home and from 10 a.m. until service time Monday at the church.
Carrie was born June 17, 1944, in Natchez, the daughter of O.C. Monte and Martha Belle Monte.
Carrie thoroughly enjoyed spending time with her husband, John Boyte, of 50 years and her two grandchildren, Saige and Hunter.
In 2006, John and Carrie received the couple of the year award from Gold Wing Road Riders Motorcycle Chapter “G” Club. She also enjoyed working in the yard, putting together puzzles and crocheting.
Carrie was a 1963 graduate of Natchez High School. She went to work as an operator at Bell South in 1963. Then in 1968, she followed her husband to Norfolk, Va., and worked for AT&T in Chesapeake, Va., while he served in the Navy. She had a total of 33 years working for the telephone company before she retired. She raised her only child, Don, and enjoyed hunting and fishing on her daddy’s land.
Carrie was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church.
She was preceded in death by her parents, O. C. Monte and Martha Belle Monte.
Survivors include her husband, John Wesley Boyte; one son, Don Wesley Boyte and wife, Elizabeth Flournoy Boyte; one granddaughter, Saige Lauren Boyte; one grandson, Hunter Wesley Boyte, all of Zachary, La.; three sisters, Martha “Dump” Allbritton of McCall Creek, Mildred “Weese” Prather of Meadville and Mary Risinger of Carthage, Texas.
Pallbearers will be Monte Martin, Wyatt Martin, Cecil Burlison, James Flournoy, Ricky French and Buddy Emerick.
Honorary pallbearer will be Hunter Boyte.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s Hospital.
Online condolences may be sent to lairdfh.com.