Zoreldah Boyd Thomason (b. Boyd) (1904-1987) was born in New York, New York, and died in East Aurora, New York. As a child she lived for a time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and around 1914 moved with her family to Buffalo, New York, where she became a teacher in a state normal school. She married William A. Thomason in Buffalo in 1936. He was an automobile parts inspector and later became a chemist in a milk dairy. Sometime before 1940 they moved to East Aurora, and Thomason was employed as a teacher at East Aurora High School for many years. She was the daughter of Florence Clerihew Boyd who was a student of Mary Baker Eddy's, a member of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and a practitioner of Christian Science. In 1910, Thomason's mother wrote a letter to Eddy discussing how Thomason and her older brother Walter H. Boyd, Jr. and sister Florence Boyd Lindsey (b. Boyd) were receptive to learning Christian Science as young children.

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