Pearl Warren Byrd

Mrs. Byrd was born in Buncombe County and was a daughter of the late Fred H. and Ella Bates Warren. She was married for 50 years to Isaac N. Byrd who died in 1980. She was a charter member of Sunrise Baptist Church.

She was a loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother and is survived by four daughters and sons-in-law, Doris and Joseph Randolph of Advance, Elbritta and Floyd Bonham of Maggie Valley, Sandra and Richard Wheeler of Bossier City, LA, and Linda and Michael Conard of Clyde; one son and daughter-in-law, Newland H. “Buck” and Remonia Byrd of Arden; three sisters, Addie Soesbee and Altha Kanipe of Asheville and Christine Robinson of Triangle, VA; one brother, Fred S. “Buddy” Warren of Columbia, SC; fourteen grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at 11:00 am Thursday at Sunrise Baptist Church with the Revs. James Hutchinson and Bill Higgins officiating. Burial will be at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Her family will receive friends from 7 - 8:30 pm Wednesday at Groce Funeral Home on Patton Avenue where Mrs. Byrd will remain until being placed in the church 30 minutes prior to the service. At other times the family will be at the home of Linda and Michael Conard, 85 Lone Oak Drive, Clyde.

Memorials may be made to Silver Bluff Village, 100 Silver Bluff Drive, Canton, NC 28716.