Orville Boyd JENKINS1

21st Jul 19481 -

Life History

between 1948 and 1951	Resident in Chickasha, Grady, Oklahoma.1
21st Jul 1948	Born in Grady County Clinic, Chickasha, Grady, Oklahoma.1
1955	Baptised in Quanah, Hardeman, Texas, by Dr. W E Norman, pastor, First Baptist Church.1
between 1957 and 1961	Occupation Radio Announcer & Record Librarian, Station KOLJ, (and Student) Quanah, Hardeman, Texas.1
3rd Jun 1966	Graduated in Conway (Arkansas) High School.1,2
5th Jun 1966	Ordaned in North Conway Baptist Church, Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas.2,1
1st Aug 1970	Married Edith Marie MCSWAIN in First Baptist Church, Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas, by Pastor William T. Flynt.1
2nd May 1977	Birth of son Gareth Boyd JENKINS in Nairobi Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.1
24th Jun 1979	Birth of son Christopher Kevin JENKINS in Nairobi Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.1

Since 1977, friends have called me Obiwan. This got started with a young co-worker, because we were both Sci Fi (and Star Wars) fans. I commonly go by Orville Boyd. But this is hard for people to get out, so many call me Orville.

A few friends prefer to call me Boyd, which I also like. I am named Boyd after my Uncle Russell Boyd and like that association. The Boyd family name is an honorable Scottish name, also known as Bute or Buit,a sub-sept of the Stewart clan, which produced the Royal Stewarts of Scotland and England. The name is from the word in the Scots (Northern Anglian) language, originally from medieval French, that also has come into the English language as "butte."

My Kenyan friends and colleagues normally just call me by my initials: OBJ. In my international radio broadcasting in Kenya, I used the radio name O. B. Jay.