Nellie “Nell” Byers was born on June 13, 1922 in Rosenburg, Texas and went to be with the Lord in Heaven on October 20, 2020 in Midwest City, Oklahoma at the age of 98. Growing up on a farm in Rosenburg, TX, Nell moved to the big city of Houston and became a cosmetologist. In Houston on a blind date she met and married the love of her life Floyd L. Byers from Blairsville, Georgia. They had a WWII romance of times gone by. Her husband, friends, and neighbors called her Nell, her children called her Mom, and her grandchildren called her “Super Granny” due to her extraordinary health in her 80s and 90s.
She is preceded in death by her husband, all her siblings and granddaughter Julie Byers. She is survived by daughters Diane Dagen and husband Lee, Karen Dahlgren and husband Roger, and son Floyd L. Byers II, grandchildren Jennifer Goahlke and husband Brian, Drs. Ryan Michael Dahlgren and wife Annie, Blake Reed Dahlgren, April Alexander, great-grandchildren William and Gigi Goahlke, and Grace Adeline Dahlgren. She was a member of Meadowood Baptist Church.
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