Omer BYG

BYG, HOULTON, TUNELL, CARTER, LANG, ASHMORE, KRATOCHVIL, LANDHUIS, WOOLRIDGE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/15/2013 at 17:51:27

March 18, 1912 ---- July 6, 1948

Funeral Services Held for Omer Byg Friday Afternoon

Funeral services for Omer Byg, who was killed at Dows, Iowa, Tuesday afternoon of last week, were held at Sioux Falls last Friday afternoon. Rev. C. J. Swanson of the First (Lutheran church of that city officiated. Hawarden residents who attended included Mrs. Byg and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Houlton, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Tunell and Joe, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Lang, Mrs. Jay Ashmore and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kratochvil. Mrs. G. L. Houlton and lone of Ireton, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Landhuis of Rock Valley and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Woolridge of Arrold's Park, relatives of Mrs. Byg, also attended the services.

Hawarden Independent - Iowa
July 15, 1948

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Omer Byg, 36, of Dows, a former Hawarden resident, was instantly killed Tuesday afternoon when a motor patrol on which he was working turned over on him, crushing his chest. Mr. Byg was working on a sloping grade when the accident occurred. Mrs. Byg's parents, Mr. & Mrs. F. H. Houlton and Oliver Tunell went to Dows when they learned of the tragedy. They returned yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Mrs. Byg and daughter.

Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at Sioux Falls. A son of Mr. & Mrs. Peter Byg, he was born at Hartford, SD, March 18, 1912. He married Myrna Houlton Christmas Day, 1945. Survivors are his wife and baby daughter, Cynthia Kay; four other children, Norma, Bobbie, Judy and Dennis from a former marriage; his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Peter Byg of Sioux Falls, and three sisters and three brothers.

Hawarden Independent, July 8, 1948

[burial in Woodlawn Cemetery in Sioux Falls, South Dakota]