MITCHELL COUNTY, NC - OBITUARIES - James "Jim" Byrd, 4 Oct 2003 --------------¤¤¤¤¤¤-------------- JAMES BYRD BAKERSVILLE - James "Jim" Byrd, 93, of the Beans Creek community, died Saturday, Oct. 4, 2003 at Yancey Nursing Center in Burnsville. He was the son of Lace and Nora Garland Byrd, and husband of the late Mary Stevens Byrd. He was a member of Beans Creek Freewill Baptist Church. Survivors include a brother, Nathan Byrd of Bakersville, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held at 8 p.m. Monday in the chapel of Henline-Hughes Funeral Home in Bakersville. Rev. Roger Laws officiated. Burial was at 11 a.m. in Beans Creek Cemetery. The family received friends from 6 p.m. until the service hour at the funeral home. Mitchell News-Journal 10/15/03 ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Mitchell News Journal www.mitchellnews.com/ ___________________________________________________________________