Byrne, Charles T. "Charlie"  
 	
GILMER -- Services for Charles T. "Charlie" Byrne, 83, of 
Gilmer will be 10 a.m. Wednesday, January 3, 2007, at 
Croley Funeral Home Chapel in Gilmer with Kenneth 
Montgomery and Jeff Proctor officiating. Interment will 
be in Hopewell Cemetery in Upshur County. Mr. Byrne passed 
away Sunday, December 31, 2006 at a local hospital. Mr. 
Byrne was born June 9, 1923, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 
to Raymond and Gertrude Rechtenwall Byrne. He was a retired 
medic with a M.A.S.H. Unit in the U.S. Air Force, had lived 
in Upshur County for 40 years and was a member of Brumley 
Baptist Church. Mr. Byrne is survived by his daughter and 
son-in-law, Bridget and Phil Fowler of Gilmer; two 
granddaughters and grandsons-in-law, Karen and Harold 
Holyfield and Sharon and Brian Ficke; and seven 
great-grandchildren, Kaitlyn, Kourtney, Madison, Meagan, 
Peighton and Luke Holyfield and Fowler Gibson Ficke. He was 
preceded in death by his wife, Della May Tye Byrne, in 2006; 
and a daughter, Chardel Kathleen Byrne, in 1964. Pallbearers 
will be Sid Fowler, Ken Fowler, Tommie John Taylor, Lane 
Taylor, Glenn Sturdivant and William Neal Tye. Visitation 
will be 6-8 p.m. today, January 2, 2007, at Croley Funeral 
Home in Gilmer.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 1/2/2007.