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Forrest Wiatt Byrd

18 Sep 1890 – 29 Jun 1978

Birth	18 Sep 1890
Death	29 Jun 1978
Cemetery	Forest Lawn Memorial Park Omaha , Douglas County , Nebraska , USA
Added by	Diane Elsasser Snider on 03 Jun 2025
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146981460

Bio

Brother of Lola Ellen, Beulah, and Vivian Lillian. A young brother named Francis died before Vivian was born. Forrest married Mary Alice Yeats. Their child was Marion. She married Arthur Forbes in Omaha. Forrest worked as a landscaping contractor and was the manager of a nursery business in Omaha. Lola married Cecil Emerson Vesy in Omaha in April 1916. Their children were twins Vivian and Virginia, and Cecil. Lola lived in California with her family for many years but died in Sioux City, Iowa in 1985 Vivian married first to Howard Wilbur Granden in Omaha in December 1918. She next married in Omaha to Frank W Hirth in May of 1927. Sister Beulah is buried with Forrest and Mary. Beulah did not marry.

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Family

Parents

• Milton Patterson Byrd 1865–1925
• Alta May Wiatt Byrd 1866–1948

Spouse

• Mary Alice "May" Yeats Byrd 1892–1983 FaG

Siblings

• Lola Ellen Byrd Vesy 1883–1985
• Beulah Waughneta Byrd 1893–1920
• Vivian Lillian Byrd Hirth 1900–1979

Children

• Marion Byrd Forbes 1916–2003 FaG

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