Dan Boulware

Funeral services for Dan Mahanay Boulware, 70, of Cleburne, Texas will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 19, 2016 at the First United Methodist Church of Cleburne. The Rev. Dr. Robert Herzig will officiate; assisted by the Rev. Dr. Lamar E. Smith.
Burial will follow at Rosehill Cemetery.
A visitation for family and friends will be held from 6 – 8 p.m. Friday, March 18, 2016 at Rosser Funeral Home.
Dan passed away Thursday, March 17, 2016 in Cleburne. He was born in Beaumont, Texas on November 9, 1945, the son of Alline (Mahanay) and Vernon Eugene Boulware.
Dan married Barbara Bedsworth on August 24, 1968 in Fort Worth, Texas.
He was a graduate of Cleburne High School and attended Texas Wesleyan University from 1964-1967. Dan then attended Baylor Law School in Waco, Texas, earning his Juris Doctor in August of 1969.
Dan served as County and then District Attorney before becoming a partner in the firm of MacLean & Boulware.
During his law practice Dan was named 1988 Texas War on Drugs Prosecutor and served as President of the Texas District and County Attorney’s Association in 1991.
He was named 1992 Prosecutor of the Year by the Criminal Justice Section of the State Bar of Texas and was a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (1994 – present).
Dan was also a member of the State Bar of Texas Committee on Legal Service to the Poor in Civil Matters (2003-present) and was Director for the State Bar of Texas for District 7-A (2000-2003). He was Trustee of the Texas Bar Foundation (2003-2006). Dan served in many other capacities.
He served over 20 years as a Trustee for Texas Wesleyan University and was currently Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees (2014-2016). He had also served as Secretary (2009-2013), Chairman of the Advancement Committees and was a member of Finance and Audit Governance and Executive Committees.
Dan proudly served his country in the Texas National Guard and was a member of First United Methodist Church of Cleburne.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Dan is survived by his wife, Barbara Boulware of Cleburne; sons, Robert Boulware and wife, Anna and Charles Boulware and wife, Jane Erwin, all of Fort Worth; daughter Kathleen Kyzar and husband, Chad, of Fort Worth; grandchildren, Claire and Andrew Kyzar, Charlie and Josephine Boulware, and Mahanay Boulware; sister, DiAnn Boulware Hyde and husband, Frank, of Cleburne; and numerous nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to First United Methodist Church, 1300 W. Westhill Drive, Cleburne, Texas 76033 or to Office of Advancement, Texas Wesleyan University, 1201 Wesleyan Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76105.