Mary Marie Byrd

Services are scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Friday, Sept. 26th, at Bright-Holland Funeral Home with Barney Owens officiating. Burial will follow in Shady Grove Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 – 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Byrd, the daughter of Frank Artie & Vera Alma Sims Dowling, was born Feb. 4, 1930, in Cyril, OK.

On Feb. 21, 1948, she married Marion D. Byrd, building forty-six years of family and memories before his death on Nov. 12, 1994. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and faithful member of the Church of Christ.

Mrs. Byrd enjoyed painting and crocheting.

Survivors include six children, Regina Humphrey & husband Tommy of Golden, OK, Tim Byrd & wife Chloe of Deport, Ewell Byrd & wife Paulette of Pattonville, Gail Robison & husband Charles of Deport, Avis Dilday & husband Chuck of Reno and Denise St. John & husband William of Blossom, seventeen grandchildren, twenty-six great grandchildren, eight great great grandchildren, two brothers, Lee Dowling & wife Lona of OK and Ray Dowling of Protection KS, one sister, Cheryl Rollins of Ashland, KS along with numerous nieces & nephews and a host of friends.

Casket bearers will be: Eric St. John, Thomas Humphrey, Marion Humphrey, Adam Humphrey, Matthew Humphrey, Michael Byrd, Creighton Byrd, Leighton Byrd, Nathan Byrd and Charles Robison.