Byrne, Della May Tye   

GILMER -- Services for Della May Tye Byrne will be held 10 a.m. Saturday, 
August 12, 2006, at Croley Funeral Home Chapel, with Brother Kenneth 
Montgomery officiating. Burial will follow in Hopewell Cemetery of Upshur 
County. Mrs. Byrne died Wednesday, August 9, 2006, in Tyler. She was born 
May 1, 1919, in Upshur County, to Johnny B. and Mamie Lee Steelman Tye. 
Mrs. Byrne was a WAC in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. She was 
a member of the Brumley Baptist Church and was a retired medical record 
technician. Mrs. Byrne was preceded in death by her daughter, Chardel 
Kathleen Byrne in 1964. She is survived by her husband, Charles T. Byrne 
of Gilmer; daughter and son-in-law, Bridget and Phil Fowler of Gilmer; 
grandchildren and spouses, 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. Visitation 
will be from 6-8 p.m. Friday evening, August 11, 2006, at the funeral 
home.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 8/10/2006.