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New Mexico

   Thelma Byars
   PORTALES - Thelma Byars, 85, died Thursday, Aug. 13, 1998.
   
   Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Wheeler Chapel with Chris
   Swinford officiating. Burial will be in Fort Sumner Cemetery in Fort
   Sumner by Wheeler Mortuary Inc. of Portales.
   
   Mrs. Byars was born on Haystack Mountain near Jester and Mangum, Okla.
   As a child, she moved to Hollis, Okla., for a short time before moving
   to Childress, Texas when she was 3. In 1921, she moved to Fort Sumner
   where she attended school and lived for many years.
   
   In 1972, Mrs. Byars and her husband moved to Vermont where she helped
   her daughter with a ceramic studio. They moved to Portales in 1985.
   She was a member of Third and Kilgore Church of Christ.
   
   She married Gus L. Byars in 1932 at Santa Rosa.
   
   Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Shirley Ford-Wormington of
   Portales; a brother, Bill Potter of Tucumcari; a sister, Helen Edwards
   of Friona, Texas; two grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren.
   
   The family suggests memorials be to Fort Sumner Cemetery Fund.