Upson COUNTY, GA - Obits Elmer Lee Byars Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Lisa Graham LisaGraham32@aol.com The Thomaston Times March 5, 1980 ELMER LEE BYARS THOMASTON- Elmer Lee Byars, age 60, of 408 West County Road, Thomaston, died at the Upson County Hospital on Monday evening, March 3,1980. Funeral services will be held at the Chapel of Pasley-Fletcher Funeral Home on Thursday March 6 at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Robert Stewart officiating. Interment will be in the Southview Cemetery. Pasley Fletcher Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mr. Byars was a native of Butts County but had lived in Thomaston for 50 years. He was a retired truck driver for Bowman Truck Lines. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Hazel Clark Byars of Thomaston; two daughters, Mrs. Sandra Walker, Mrs. Cherie Carpenter of Phenix City, Ala.; two step daughters, Mrs. Kathleen Bedsole of Restone, Vir., Mrs. Barbara Stanley of Macon; one son, Gary Byars of Huron, Calif.; his mother, Mrs. Ellie Easler of Warner Robins; his stepmother, Mrs. Vera Byars of Thomaston; two sisters, Mrs. Martha Whitney of Mauk, Mrs. Mary Benior of Butler; eleven grandchildren also survive. Other- His first wife was Christine Savage