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Merrill Outten Byrd Jr.

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Merrill Outten Byrd Jr. Veteran

Birth
Crisfield, Somerset County, Maryland, USA
Death
6 Dec 1988 (aged 61)
Crisfield, Somerset County, Maryland, USA
Burial
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CRISFIEL.D — Merrill O. Byrd 61, of Crisfield, a World War II Army veteran, died Tuesday, Dec 6, in McCready Memorial Hospital here of cardio-pulmonary arrest.

In November Byrd was awarded a 45-year service pin from Carvel Hall Cutlery in Crisfield.

Born here, he was a son of the late Merrill O. Byrd Sr. and Ella Marie Hartman Byrd. His wife, Martha M. Sandlin Byrd, died in 1985.

He was a member of Crisfield's Immanuel United Methodist Church and he was a former financial secretary of Local UAW 195 here.

Surviving are a daughter, Anita K. Byrd, Crisfield; a brother. John C. Byrd. Crisfield and a grandson.

A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Bradshaw and Sons Funeral Home with the Rev, Russell Pinkerton officiating. Interment will be in Sunnyridge Memorial Park here

Friends may call at the funeral home tonight from 7 to 9.

Contributions may be made in the memory of the deceased to the Lower Somerset County Ambulance and Rescue Squad, PO. Box 406. Crisfield. Md. 11817.

The Daily Times (Salisbury, Maryland)
Wed, Dec 7, 1988
CRISFIEL.D — Merrill O. Byrd 61, of Crisfield, a World War II Army veteran, died Tuesday, Dec 6, in McCready Memorial Hospital here of cardio-pulmonary arrest.

In November Byrd was awarded a 45-year service pin from Carvel Hall Cutlery in Crisfield.

Born here, he was a son of the late Merrill O. Byrd Sr. and Ella Marie Hartman Byrd. His wife, Martha M. Sandlin Byrd, died in 1985.

He was a member of Crisfield's Immanuel United Methodist Church and he was a former financial secretary of Local UAW 195 here.

Surviving are a daughter, Anita K. Byrd, Crisfield; a brother. John C. Byrd. Crisfield and a grandson.

A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Bradshaw and Sons Funeral Home with the Rev, Russell Pinkerton officiating. Interment will be in Sunnyridge Memorial Park here

Friends may call at the funeral home tonight from 7 to 9.

Contributions may be made in the memory of the deceased to the Lower Somerset County Ambulance and Rescue Squad, PO. Box 406. Crisfield. Md. 11817.

The Daily Times (Salisbury, Maryland)
Wed, Dec 7, 1988


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