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Byron Albert “Barney” Reeves

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Byron Albert “Barney” Reeves Veteran

Birth
Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA
Death
20 Jan 1996 (aged 68)
Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Garden of Devotion
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Byron A. "Barney" Reeves, 68, of 2726 W. Creston Lane died Saturday, Jan. 20, 1996, in Saint Francis Medical Center. Born Nov. 10, 1927, in St. Paul, Minn., to Walter A. and Sophie Huffman Reeves, he married Janie E. Chapman on Nov. 7, 1950, in Peoria. She survives.

Also surviving are two sons, Kirk E. of Peoria and Kent D. of Collinsville; one sister, Mrs. Norman (Donna) Vollmer of Two Harbors, Minn.; and one brother, Robert L. of Manito. He was preceded in death by one brother. He was a driver for Baumgarten Distributing until he retired in 1982. He previously was a driver for R.J. Distributing and was a foreman for Armour and Co.

He was a Korean War Army veteran.

Burial will be in Swan Lake Memory Gardens in Peoria.

Full obit in the Peoria Journal Star - Tues., January 23, 1996

Name: Byron Albert Reeves
Birth Date: 10 Nov 1927
Birth Place: Ramsey, Minnesota
Father's Surname: Reeves
Mother's Maiden Name: Huffman
Minnesota, Birth Index
Byron A. "Barney" Reeves, 68, of 2726 W. Creston Lane died Saturday, Jan. 20, 1996, in Saint Francis Medical Center. Born Nov. 10, 1927, in St. Paul, Minn., to Walter A. and Sophie Huffman Reeves, he married Janie E. Chapman on Nov. 7, 1950, in Peoria. She survives.

Also surviving are two sons, Kirk E. of Peoria and Kent D. of Collinsville; one sister, Mrs. Norman (Donna) Vollmer of Two Harbors, Minn.; and one brother, Robert L. of Manito. He was preceded in death by one brother. He was a driver for Baumgarten Distributing until he retired in 1982. He previously was a driver for R.J. Distributing and was a foreman for Armour and Co.

He was a Korean War Army veteran.

Burial will be in Swan Lake Memory Gardens in Peoria.

Full obit in the Peoria Journal Star - Tues., January 23, 1996

Name: Byron Albert Reeves
Birth Date: 10 Nov 1927
Birth Place: Ramsey, Minnesota
Father's Surname: Reeves
Mother's Maiden Name: Huffman
Minnesota, Birth Index

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