VINITA, Dec. 4—Rosary for Mrs. O.F. Byron, 33-year-old
Vinitan who was fatally injured in a train-car accident on
SH 82 near Langley Wednesday, was recited at 8 p.m. Sunday
in Luginbuel Brothers Funeral home chapel.
Requiem mass will be at 9 a.m. Monday in the Holy Ghost
Catholic church. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery.
Mrs. Byron and Miss Dorothy F. Harris, 48, were enroute to
Langley from Vinita at the time of the accident. Miss
Harris, the only passenger in the car driven by Mrs. Byron,
was killed instantly.
Rosary was said here Thursday night for Miss Harris. Her
body was sent to Cumberland, Md., for burial. Miss Harris,
employed as a medical technician here, lived with her
mother, Mrs. Gertrude Harris, route 3, Vinita. She was born
in Cumberland.
Mrs. Byron, born in Millersburg, Ky., came to Vinita with
her husband in 1948 from Washington, D.C. They were employed
at Eastern State hospital and also operated a medical
laboratory for doctors in this area.
Survivors, in addition to her husband, include: one son,
Douglass Fairworth Byron; one daughter, Lacy Byron; and one
foster son, James Byron, all of the home; her mother, Mrs.
Lida Baunta and one sister, Mrs. Rachel Hamm, both of Dos
Palos, Calif.; and one brother, Woodrow Bannister,
Covington, Ky.
From
The Oklahoma, 12/5/1955
Donated by:
Emily Jordan
