Murle Byrd

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

RISCO -- Murle Lee Byrd, 81, died June 11, 2012, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.

Born July 12, 1930, in Holcomb, to the late Alfred and Ada Stacy Green, she was a member of the Pleasantview General Baptist Church in Risco.

On Feb. 8, 1950, at Malden, she married Charles Roland Byrd who survives of the home.

Other survivors include: two sons and daughters-in-law, Daniel and Donna Byrd of Sikeston and Keith and Tammie Byrd of Dexter; one brother, the Rev. Hugh Clayton Green of St. Louis; one sister, Mary Jane Duncan of Canfield, Ohio; two half sisters, Barbara Wilfong of Advance and Glenda McCulley of Imperial; and eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, Anson Green and Ralph Green, two sisters, Alfreda Meyers and Betty Cook, one half sister, Becky Umslet, and one half brother, Alfred Green Jr.

Visitation is scheduled from 11 a.m. until time of services at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. The Rev. Mark Powell will officiate.

Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery in Malden.