Yvonne Boyette Cowart

CLAXTON: Yvonne Boyette Cowart entered into eternal rest in the very early morning hours on Tuesday, January 19 (approximately 2:00 am). She had fought a very long battle with several degenerative and chronic conditions as well as and clinical depression and bipolar disorder. Yvonne was born on June 9, 1945, in Tattnall County, to Wallace Boyette and Thurla Jenkins Boyette. Yvonne attended Hillview grade school and later graduated from Collins High School. She was taught to work hard as a daughter of children of the great depression, so she learned to garden and weed, and pick cotton and tobacco with the best of them, picking 100 pounds of cotton a day she claimed. After graduating from high school, Yvonne went on to Georgia Southern College for a time, but actually she preferred being a housewife and raising children, so she abandoned her educational pursuits to focus on being a mother. Yvonne had learned to sew as a teen, and she was a striking beauty of a young woman. She taught herself how to make her own pageant gowns on an old treadle sewing machine. Yvonne loved sewing and was exceptionally good at it, and years later became a private seamstress and later an alterations specialist. She took several jobs in the 70’s and 80’s in Claxton working with Sally Nease at Sally’s, and Sandra Smith at “Sandra’s Frame Shop”, at “The Needle’s Eye” for Jane Adams, she also worked with Jerri Wasdin Strickland at Jeri-Bee-Junction. Yvonne was the granddaughter of the circuit riding preacher, Rev. Quinton Boyette of Anderson Primitive Baptist Church and she was a member of the Claxton Primitive Baptist Church, but she had been a member of Eason’s Chapel United Methodist church, Benny’s famiily church, for a number of years after they married. She proved to be quite talented at most everything she put her hands to and Yvonne became an accomplished picture framing specialist, a painter in several mediums, a quilter, crocheter, needlepointer, counted cross stitcher. As hard as she worked, Yvonne will pehaps be best remembered for her beautiful long, painted fingernails. Everyone talked about her nails and how beautiful she was her whole life. She was an outstandingly dedicated mother and was loved dearly by her children. She was also a devoted wife to Benny. Nothing came before her family. In September of 2021 Yvonne was hospitalized for a Pancreatic mass and in November and December of 2021 it became clear that her health was declining rapidly. She was taken into “at home hospice care” on Wednesday, January 12th. Her family joined her for her final days and were with her as she passed away on the morning of the 19th. They loved her dearly and were by her side. Yvonne and Benny were still married and she is survived by her husband, Benjamin “Benny” Thomas Cowart, III, her son, Barry and his husband Jimmie of Augusta, GA, and her daughter, Yvette and her partner Jeanna, from Undine community.
There will be a graveside service at Anderson’s at 11am, Friday, January 28, 2022



SOCIAL DISTANCING WILL BE OBSERVED DURING THE SERVICE, DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. MASKS ARE NOT REQUIRED BUT HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.



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