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October 27, 1988
Sapulpa Herald
Creek Co. OK.

BYARD

MOUNDS— Mr. Hiram W. Byard, 95, of Mounds, died Tuesday at a Glenpool nursing home.

Services will be 10 a.m. Friday at First Baptist Church in Mounds with the Rev. Jim Ray officiating.

Burial will be in Mounds Cemetery under the direction of Leonard Funeral Home of Bixby.

Mr. Byard was born Feb. 19, 1893, at Hundred, W. Va., and moved to the Mounds area in 1912. He was a retired oil field worker and member of the First Baptist Church in Mounds.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Nora Marie, on July 19, 1986.

Survivors include two sons Fred S. of Glenpool and Bill B. of Mounds; two daughters Mary Margaret Cowan of Tahlequah and Marcella B. Gooch of Port Arthur, Texas; eight grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, memorials have been designated to Camp Leah in Tahlequah in care of First Baptist Church of Mounds.