Extracted from The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, TX)
Friday, July 8, 1977

Arthur Sayre

BRECKENRIDGE -- Arthur Kellet Sayre, 57, Dallas district director of the Texas Employment Commission, died Wednesday in a Roanoke, Va., hospital from injuries received in a car wreck near Radford, Va., June 30. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in First United Presbyterian Church in Breckenridge.

The Rev. Frank Brooks, pastor, will officiate. Burial will military graveside services will be in Breckenridge Cemetery, directed by Satterwhite Funeral Home.

Mr. Sayre and his wife were on their way to visit their oldest son, who will be married August 13. Mrs. Sayre is in the Radford Community Hospital in Virginia.

Born Jan. 11, 1920, in Silver City, N.M., he came to Stephens County in 1920 and was a 1937 graduate of Breckenridge High School. He married Mary DeMasters June 17, 1949, in Breckenridge. He went to work for the Texas Employment Commission in Wichita Falls in 1952. In May 1961, he moved to Dallas where he was named district director Sept. 1, 1968. Mr. Sayre was a Presybyterian.

Survivors include his wife; three sons, Arthur Kellet Sayre Jr. of Grand Prairie, Johnny Mark Sayre of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Larry Sayre of Irving; a sister, Mrs. R. H. Dye of Baird; and two brothers, Ed Sayre of Breckenridge and Frank Sayre of Eastland.

The family will be at the Ed Sayre home, No. I Sierra Drive in Breckenridge, Friday afternoon.