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Mattie (Pitts) Byars
Apr 16, 1894 - Sep 28, 1993
Submitted by Martha N. Reddout
Marietta Monitor
October 8, 1993, page 4
Services for Mattie Byars, 99, were Saturday at 2:00 p.m. in the Nazarene
Baptist Church, Burneyville. Officiating was Rev. Elmo Toles, Jr.
Mrs. Byars was born April 16, 1894, in Berwyn, Indian Territory, and died
September 28, 1993, in Oklahoma City. She was the daughter of Pinkney and Mary
Wells Pitts.
She had lived in Marietta and Burneyville before moving to Oklahoma City in
1972. Mrs. Byars was a homemaker and a member of the Nazarene Baptist Church at
Burneyville. She married Rayford Byars on February 6, 1913, at Burneyville.
Survivors include three sons, Willie Byars of Jamaica, New York, Henry Byars of
Oklahoma City, and Rayford Byars, Jr.of Gainesville, Texas; a daughter, Eva
Downey of Oklahoma City; 21 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren, 6
great-great-grandchildren, and a host of step-grandchildren.
Services were under the direction of the Anderson-Kennedy Funeral Home with
interment in the Dunbar Cemetery, Burneyville. Grandsons served as casket
bearers
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