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DATE: SATURDAY, October 16, 1993                   TAG: 9310180199
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: MONETA                                LENGTH: Short

OBIT BYRD, WILLIAM HOMER

BYRD, William Homer 75, of Moneta, passed away Friday, October 15, 1993, in Roanoke Memorial Hospital. He was born August 13, 1918 in Bedford County, a son of the late Tom Byrd and Elvira Brown Bird. He was a retired welder, a veteran of World War II, and was a member of the Radford Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Leigh Ann Blankenship. He is survived by his wife, Kathleen Whitworth Byrd; two daughters & son-in-law, Nancy & Hubert Blankenship, Wandy Byrd, all of Moneta; two brothes, Orie Byrd, Moneta; Clay Byrd, Roanoke; two sisters, Sallie Willie Jones, Moneta; Carrie Arthur, Roanoke; four grandchildren, Denny Blankenship, Kelly Blankenship, Nikki Blankenship, Ashley Keesee. Funeral Services will be conducted Sunday, October 17, 1993 at 2 p.m. from the Radford Baptist Church, by the Rev. Vernon DeLong. Interment will follow in the Byrd Family Cemetery. The family will receive friends today from 7-9 p.m. at Updike Funeral Home, Bedford, and requests that those wishing to make memorials consider the Huddleston Rescue Squad. 


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