Reel Adam Boyd, 84, of Sioux Falls died Wednesday, December 15, at his home. He was born August 15, 1926 in Houston, Texas, the son of Theodore and Lona Mae Boyd. He was raised in Houston, attending Houston public schools and the University of Houston. While attending the university, he worked as a clerk in the Houston office of the F.B.I. He married Marian Warner on August 27, 1948. He then attended the South Texas College of Law and became a member of the Texas Bar Association on August 20, 1951. Soon after passing the bar, he became an FBI agent and attended training school in Quantico, Virginia. It was while attending training school that their first child, Reel Adam, Jr. was born. After completing training, the young family moved to LaCrosse, Wisconsin, for his first assignment as a Special Agent of the FBI and the birth of their second child, Patricia. He was then transferred to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Reel worked first as an agent, and then as Senior Resident Agent of the Sioux Falls F.B.I. office from 1953 to 1976, when he retired. After retiring from the F.B.I. , he and Marian traveled extensively both within the US and internationally. Reel is survived by his son, Reel Adam Boyd, Jr., and his wife Robin of Joplin, MO and his daughter, Patricia Ann Distler and her husband Charles of Redlands, CA; two grandchildren, Jennifer Webster and her husband Glenn of Neosho, MO and Adam Reel Boyd of Denver, CO; three great-grandchildren, Kyler Webster, McKynzie Webster and Abigail Webster of Neosho, MO; and four sisters, Theodore Mae Boyd of Houston, TX; Betty Hardy of Houston, TX; Marjorie Shelton of Rockwall, Texas; and Janice Harry of Montgomery, Texas.