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Eva-Marie Warren Boyd, Rest in Peace

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Reprinted from the Orange County newspaper (July 20, 2005)

Longtime Laguna Beach resident Eva-Marie Warren Boyd died unexpectedly on Thursday February 10th at the age of 63.

Born Eva-Marie Lisalotte Halberstrob in Breslau, Germany November 7th, 1941, she spent several years in Austria in exile from Germany. Following WW II, Eva-Marie returned to Germany with her mother, Helena Emma, and her maternal grandparents, Hedwig and Albert Schulz. After surviving a near fatal car accident, she immigrated at the age of six to the United States with her mother and stepfather, James Warren, who opened a magazine and tobacco shop in downtown Fort Worth, Texas.

She attended elementary school at Saint Ignatius Academy, where she met her husband C. H. Boyd III. After graduating from at Our Lady of Victory High School in 1960 she married C.H. and had two sons, Clarence H. Boyd IV, and James Warren Boyd. She then graduated Magna Cum Laude from Texas Christian University with a double major in German and History.

The family moved to California in 1968 and settled into an Eichler home in Orange. In her 20s and 30s she taught elementary school, was an administrator for her husband's sales agency, and briefly established her own cottage industry as a knitwear designer and maker. In 1985, after their sons left for college, Eva-Marie and C. H. moved to Laguna Beach where her husband opened the Elan Art Gallery. He currently practices as a certified art appraiser.

Eva-Marie decided to go to law school. She made Law Review and received her Juris Doctorate in 1988 from Western State Law School and served as President of its Alumni Association. Passing the bar on her first attempt, Eva-Marie opened a private practice in Laguna and was active in the Orange County law community. She served as President of the Orange County Barristers and was elected to the Board of Directors for the Orange County Bar Association. In 1993 she received the Advocate Award from the Public Law Center for her pro bono work with "Justice for All."

A frequent volunteer, Eva-Marie-known for her charm, style, intelligence, and tenacity-worked with the Laguna Beach Animal Shelter and most recently served as a docent for the Laguna Beach Art Museum.

(Note: Most of the columns in CLN's Legal Q. & A. section were written by Eva-Marie. To read them, click on the titles in the right hand column.)

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