1st. Lt. Mary Ann BYRD

Enid News and Eagle

1979

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

© Enid News and Eagle

"All people are good, but better are none,
than all the seniors of '71!"

Gone but never forgotten.

- EHS Class of 1971

Services for 1st LT. Mary Ann Byrd, 25, were at 10:30 a.m. today in the Ladusau Evans Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Ron Irons and the Rev. Richard Duckworth conducted the rites.

Born Sept. 15, 1953 at Vance Air Force Base, she attended Monroe and Emerson Junior High schools. She graduated from Enid High School in 1971. She also attended O. T. Autry Vo Tech, Southwestern State College in Weatherford and graduated with a B.S.N. degree from Central State University in 1975. Miss Byrd worked as a registered nurse in the Intensive Care Units of St Francis Hospital in Tulsa as well as hospitals in Denver and Longmont Colorado. She joined the Air Force in 1978 and received her first assignment to the Phillipines June, 1978.

She died Sept. 1, 1979 at Clark Air Force Base in the Phillipines. Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Survivors include her mother Mae Bonnett, Enid; father and step mother Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Byrd Sr., Samson, Alabama; one brother Charles (Chuck), Enid; one half-sister, Gayla Marie Bonnett of the home; maternal grandmother, Farol Massie, Enid; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Byrd, Samson, Alabama; one niece, Amie Dea Byrd; one nephew, Charles Michael Byrd and a number of relatives.

A student fund has been established in her name at Central State University School of Nursing. Ladusau Evans Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements and will act as custodian of the fund.

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