Extracted from The Camden News (Camden, AR)
Thursday, April 5, 1973

Mrs. Byrd

Mrs. Izzie Byrd, 87, of Bearden, widow of Jessie B. Byrd, died Thursday afternoon in the Ouachita Hospital. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Bearden.

Funeral services were to be held at 2 p. m. at Benton Funeral Home in Fordyce. Burial was to be in Moss Cemetery.

Mrs. Byrd is survived by two daughters Mrs. J.C. Upton of Camden, and Mrs. Mary Lee Mc Donald of New Orleans, La; three sons, Floyd Byrd of Camden, Loyd Byrd of Little Rock, and J. B. Byrd of Bearden; 10 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.