Service: 2 p.m. Monday at Shannon Rufe Snow Funeral Chapel with interment to follow in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Clara was born Sept. 27, 1918, in Amber, Okla., to Benton and Mary Higginbotham and grew up in Dublin, Texas. She was a member of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in Fort Worth and St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church in Houston.
She was preceded by her husband, Robert E. Byron; sisters, Leona Sturgeon, Costy King and Mildred Capell; and brother, R.O. Higginbotham.
Survivors: Daughters, Linda Smalley and husband, Houston, of Houston and Susan Blackmon and husband, Randy, of La Porte; son, Robert J. Byron of Houston; eight grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
