Obituary of Delia K. Boyle

DELIA K. BOYLE December 17, 1948 - November 19, 2010 Delia ("Dee") 61, of Kew Gardens, NY died on Friday November 19, 2010 at the Good Shepherd Hospice in Port Jefferson, NY after a 3 year battle with cervical cancer. Delia was predeceased by her parents, John A. and Madalyn M. Boyle and by one brother, Joseph M. Boyle. Delia is survived by her siblings John, Mary, Andrew and Margaret; her in-laws Joan, George, Dana and Michael; and her nieces Jenne, Jackie, Jamie, Robyn, Kayla and Juliet. Delia excelled in her career as a legal transcriber. She started to work in this field long before computers were commonplace. And although Dee had no formal education in computers, she possessed an ingenious skill in mastering new technology, especially software programs and in implementing them in her job. Dee was an avid and voracious reader and possessed an uncanny ability to remember facts in great detail. This made her virtually unbeatable at games like Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit. She enjoyed all board games and especially loved playing them with her family. She also loved to bake and her oatmeal cookies were heavenly. We will all miss sitting around after Christmas dinner, eating her cookies and losing to her a whatever board game we happen to be playing. But while Dee was a wiz with technology, board games and in the kitchen, it was her ability to relate to all kinds and types of people that was her greatest and most endearing trait. What she loved to most of all was to help people. Delia's love was all encompassing. There was never a time in any of her family's or friends' lives that each of did not know that we were loved. She often told us, "I love you", and her actions gave great and lasting testimony of that love. She truly gave life to the words of the song below: "I'd gladly walk across the desert with no shoes upon my feet To share with you the last bite of bread I had to eat. I would swim out to save you in your sea of broken dreams When all your hopes are sinking let me show you what love means." Finally, Delia's faith was constant and grew even stronger as life ebbed away from her. She was not what most people would call "religious" but her life demonstrated her faith. Her relationship with Jesus Christ was real. She "loved God" and she did so by "loving her neighbor". Delia lived by those two simple commandments. Her faith rested in the promise of God that he would bring her to heaven. Her reliance on this promise gives comfort to all of us, who loved Dee, for we know that she is now at "home, in a better place".