Mrs. Avery Barron, 53, of 327 West Jones, died at 3:45 a.m. today at a local hospital following and illness of only a few days.
Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Friday at the John C. Dannel Funeral Home with the Rev. Claude Johnston, pastor of the North Park Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be in West Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Barron was born as Birchie Ayers, February 9, 1893 in Ripley, Tippah, Mississippi, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Lige Ayers. She was first married in 1908 to William Blythe in Mississippi. Mr. Blythe died in 1938 and she married Mr. Barron were married at Durant, Oklahoma May 5, 1942.
Survivors are her husband; four sons, Clifford Blythe of Dallas; W. J. Blythe of Chicago; Glenn Blythe and Ernest Blythe of Sherman; four daughters, Mrs. Everett Mitchell, Mrs. Carl Ramey and Miss Cora Lucille Blythe all of Sherman and Mrs. Loyd Linsteadt of Denison; a brother, Tom Ayers of Blanchard, Oklahoma; a sister, Mrs. Luther Mattox of Rinzi, Mississippi; and 12 grandchildren.
An added note of information, Birchie Ayers Blythe Barron was the grandmother of President William Jefferson Clinton, the son of her son William Jefferson Blythe. Her son died in an automobile accident a few months after Birchie's death and before his son was born.
Mrs. Avery Barron, 53, of 327 West Jones, died at 3:45 a.m. today at a local hospital following and illness of only a few days.
Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Friday at the John C. Dannel Funeral Home with the Rev. Claude Johnston, pastor of the North Park Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be in West Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Barron was born as Birchie Ayers, February 9, 1893 in Ripley, Tippah, Mississippi, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Lige Ayers. She was first married in 1908 to William Blythe in Mississippi. Mr. Blythe died in 1938 and she married Mr. Barron were married at Durant, Oklahoma May 5, 1942.
Survivors are her husband; four sons, Clifford Blythe of Dallas; W. J. Blythe of Chicago; Glenn Blythe and Ernest Blythe of Sherman; four daughters, Mrs. Everett Mitchell, Mrs. Carl Ramey and Miss Cora Lucille Blythe all of Sherman and Mrs. Loyd Linsteadt of Denison; a brother, Tom Ayers of Blanchard, Oklahoma; a sister, Mrs. Luther Mattox of Rinzi, Mississippi; and 12 grandchildren.
An added note of information, Birchie Ayers Blythe Barron was the grandmother of President William Jefferson Clinton, the son of her son William Jefferson Blythe. Her son died in an automobile accident a few months after Birchie's death and before his son was born.
Family Members
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Raymond William Blythe
1908–1928
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Clifford Lewis Blythe
1908–1960
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Pauline Blythe Linsteadt
1910–1994
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Earnest Clyde Blythe
1912–1981
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Zephery Maurine Blythe Mitchell
1916–1983
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William Jefferson "Bill" Blythe Jr
1918–1946
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Cora Lucille Blythe Davis
1920–1974
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Vera Lee Blythe Ramey
1923–2006
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Glen Hardy Blythe
1927–1986
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