BETZ, MRS. CLARA BYRD - Died at 2:15 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, at Field Memorial Community Hospital in Centreville, Miss. She was a a native of Amite County, Miss., 62 years old and a resident of Gloster. Body at Brown Funeral Home in Gloster until 1:45 p.m. Friday. Religious services at Gloster Methodist Church at 2 p.m. Friday, conducted by the Revs. W. H. Wicker, Delos Cassels and Roy Eaton, with interment at Roseland Cemetery at Gloster.
Pallbearers: Omer Varnado, Donald Thompson, Tyler Conerly, Benoyd Bell, Noah Funderburk and Raymond Iverson.
She is survived by her husband, Fred Betz; five daughters, Mrs. Bobby Nelson, Mrs. John D. Harrington and Mrs. L. L. Tyson Sr., all of Gloster, Mrs. Fred Hawkins, Natchez, and Mrs. Max Bankston, Centreville; five sisters, Mrs. C. W. Taylor, Mrs. J. I. Poole and Mrs. Wiley Seale, all of Gloster, Mrs. S. B. Day, Gulfport; and Mrs. Thurston Covington, Clinton; two brothers, Duddley Byrd, Pleasanton, Calif., and Wallace Byrd, Gloster; 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
She was a member of the Gloster Methodist Church.
Published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), November 30, 1962
Pallbearers: Omer Varnado, Donald Thompson, Tyler Conerly, Benoyd Bell, Noah Funderburk and Raymond Iverson.
She is survived by her husband, Fred Betz; five daughters, Mrs. Bobby Nelson, Mrs. John D. Harrington and Mrs. L. L. Tyson Sr., all of Gloster, Mrs. Fred Hawkins, Natchez, and Mrs. Max Bankston, Centreville; five sisters, Mrs. C. W. Taylor, Mrs. J. I. Poole and Mrs. Wiley Seale, all of Gloster, Mrs. S. B. Day, Gulfport; and Mrs. Thurston Covington, Clinton; two brothers, Duddley Byrd, Pleasanton, Calif., and Wallace Byrd, Gloster; 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
She was a member of the Gloster Methodist Church.
Published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), November 30, 1962
BETZ, MRS. CLARA BYRD - Died at 2:15 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, at Field Memorial Community Hospital in Centreville, Miss. She was a a native of Amite County, Miss., 62 years old and a resident of Gloster. Body at Brown Funeral Home in Gloster until 1:45 p.m. Friday. Religious services at Gloster Methodist Church at 2 p.m. Friday, conducted by the Revs. W. H. Wicker, Delos Cassels and Roy Eaton, with interment at Roseland Cemetery at Gloster.
Pallbearers: Omer Varnado, Donald Thompson, Tyler Conerly, Benoyd Bell, Noah Funderburk and Raymond Iverson.
She is survived by her husband, Fred Betz; five daughters, Mrs. Bobby Nelson, Mrs. John D. Harrington and Mrs. L. L. Tyson Sr., all of Gloster, Mrs. Fred Hawkins, Natchez, and Mrs. Max Bankston, Centreville; five sisters, Mrs. C. W. Taylor, Mrs. J. I. Poole and Mrs. Wiley Seale, all of Gloster, Mrs. S. B. Day, Gulfport; and Mrs. Thurston Covington, Clinton; two brothers, Duddley Byrd, Pleasanton, Calif., and Wallace Byrd, Gloster; 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
She was a member of the Gloster Methodist Church.
Published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), November 30, 1962
Pallbearers: Omer Varnado, Donald Thompson, Tyler Conerly, Benoyd Bell, Noah Funderburk and Raymond Iverson.
She is survived by her husband, Fred Betz; five daughters, Mrs. Bobby Nelson, Mrs. John D. Harrington and Mrs. L. L. Tyson Sr., all of Gloster, Mrs. Fred Hawkins, Natchez, and Mrs. Max Bankston, Centreville; five sisters, Mrs. C. W. Taylor, Mrs. J. I. Poole and Mrs. Wiley Seale, all of Gloster, Mrs. S. B. Day, Gulfport; and Mrs. Thurston Covington, Clinton; two brothers, Duddley Byrd, Pleasanton, Calif., and Wallace Byrd, Gloster; 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
She was a member of the Gloster Methodist Church.
Published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), November 30, 1962
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