TULIA - Wylie A. Byrd, 84, died Saturday, July 1, 2006.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the J.W. Byrd Home Place, 12 miles east of Interstate 27 on Farm-to-Market Road 285. Burial will be in Wayside Cemetery in Wayside by Kornerstone Funeral Directors in Tulia.
Mr. Byrd was born May 5, 1922, in the Wayside area to J.W and Julia Byrd. He attended Wayside schools. He married Billie Harral on Aug. 25, 1941. They moved northeast of Tulia, where he was active in farming and ranching.
In 1957, he began manufacturing a machine to pick up down crops, the Roll-A-Cone, which is still made today. The business grew to include large tillage and other farm equipment and is still operated by the second and third generation today.
He was also known for his metal frame houses. He was active in his farming and business until he was almost 80 years of age, when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's.
Survivors include his wife of almost 65 years, Billie Byrd of Tulia; two sons and daughters-in-law, Dan and Pat Byrd and Joe Lynn and Julie Byrd, all of Tulia; four daughters and sons-in-law, Freva and Don Adams, Wyla and Ed Miller, Kylene and Ron Miller and Dera and Paul Rousseau, all of Tulia; two sisters, Esther Quarnstrom of Amarillo and Lorene Visser of Bertram; a brother, Earl Byrd of Tucson, Ariz.; 23 grandchildren; and 29 great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Wayside Cemetery Association, P.O. Box 155, Wayside, TX 79094 or Area Community Hospice, P.O. Box 5087 Plainview, TX 79072.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the J.W. Byrd Home Place, 12 miles east of Interstate 27 on Farm-to-Market Road 285. Burial will be in Wayside Cemetery in Wayside by Kornerstone Funeral Directors in Tulia.
Mr. Byrd was born May 5, 1922, in the Wayside area to J.W and Julia Byrd. He attended Wayside schools. He married Billie Harral on Aug. 25, 1941. They moved northeast of Tulia, where he was active in farming and ranching.
In 1957, he began manufacturing a machine to pick up down crops, the Roll-A-Cone, which is still made today. The business grew to include large tillage and other farm equipment and is still operated by the second and third generation today.
He was also known for his metal frame houses. He was active in his farming and business until he was almost 80 years of age, when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's.
Survivors include his wife of almost 65 years, Billie Byrd of Tulia; two sons and daughters-in-law, Dan and Pat Byrd and Joe Lynn and Julie Byrd, all of Tulia; four daughters and sons-in-law, Freva and Don Adams, Wyla and Ed Miller, Kylene and Ron Miller and Dera and Paul Rousseau, all of Tulia; two sisters, Esther Quarnstrom of Amarillo and Lorene Visser of Bertram; a brother, Earl Byrd of Tucson, Ariz.; 23 grandchildren; and 29 great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Wayside Cemetery Association, P.O. Box 155, Wayside, TX 79094 or Area Community Hospice, P.O. Box 5087 Plainview, TX 79072.
TULIA - Wylie A. Byrd, 84, died Saturday, July 1, 2006.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the J.W. Byrd Home Place, 12 miles east of Interstate 27 on Farm-to-Market Road 285. Burial will be in Wayside Cemetery in Wayside by Kornerstone Funeral Directors in Tulia.
Mr. Byrd was born May 5, 1922, in the Wayside area to J.W and Julia Byrd. He attended Wayside schools. He married Billie Harral on Aug. 25, 1941. They moved northeast of Tulia, where he was active in farming and ranching.
In 1957, he began manufacturing a machine to pick up down crops, the Roll-A-Cone, which is still made today. The business grew to include large tillage and other farm equipment and is still operated by the second and third generation today.
He was also known for his metal frame houses. He was active in his farming and business until he was almost 80 years of age, when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's.
Survivors include his wife of almost 65 years, Billie Byrd of Tulia; two sons and daughters-in-law, Dan and Pat Byrd and Joe Lynn and Julie Byrd, all of Tulia; four daughters and sons-in-law, Freva and Don Adams, Wyla and Ed Miller, Kylene and Ron Miller and Dera and Paul Rousseau, all of Tulia; two sisters, Esther Quarnstrom of Amarillo and Lorene Visser of Bertram; a brother, Earl Byrd of Tucson, Ariz.; 23 grandchildren; and 29 great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Wayside Cemetery Association, P.O. Box 155, Wayside, TX 79094 or Area Community Hospice, P.O. Box 5087 Plainview, TX 79072.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the J.W. Byrd Home Place, 12 miles east of Interstate 27 on Farm-to-Market Road 285. Burial will be in Wayside Cemetery in Wayside by Kornerstone Funeral Directors in Tulia.
Mr. Byrd was born May 5, 1922, in the Wayside area to J.W and Julia Byrd. He attended Wayside schools. He married Billie Harral on Aug. 25, 1941. They moved northeast of Tulia, where he was active in farming and ranching.
In 1957, he began manufacturing a machine to pick up down crops, the Roll-A-Cone, which is still made today. The business grew to include large tillage and other farm equipment and is still operated by the second and third generation today.
He was also known for his metal frame houses. He was active in his farming and business until he was almost 80 years of age, when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's.
Survivors include his wife of almost 65 years, Billie Byrd of Tulia; two sons and daughters-in-law, Dan and Pat Byrd and Joe Lynn and Julie Byrd, all of Tulia; four daughters and sons-in-law, Freva and Don Adams, Wyla and Ed Miller, Kylene and Ron Miller and Dera and Paul Rousseau, all of Tulia; two sisters, Esther Quarnstrom of Amarillo and Lorene Visser of Bertram; a brother, Earl Byrd of Tucson, Ariz.; 23 grandchildren; and 29 great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Wayside Cemetery Association, P.O. Box 155, Wayside, TX 79094 or Area Community Hospice, P.O. Box 5087 Plainview, TX 79072.
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