March 9 is Susan Boyd Day in Columbia – proclaimed as such in 2022 by the City of Columbia to honor Boyd’s generous spirit and decades-long impact on the shape of the city through her and her husband’s charitable foundation.
Susan Fair Boyd, the matriarch of the Darnall W. and Susan F. Boyd Foundation, died Nov. 8. She was 92 years old. She and Darnall were married for 62 years, until Darnall died in 2015 at the age of 88 years old.
She is remembered by those who knew her as a visionary, as someone with energy and wit, and as an uncompromising champion of Columbia and its future. In 2022, she was given a key to the city of Columbia for her work…