Pauline "Pawnie" (Reynolds) Byers
Marriages
Frank Byers - September 22, 1929
in Eagle, Colorado.
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 12 - January 2, 2003
Pauline "Pawnie" Byers 1910--2002.
Pauline BYERS died on Monday, Dec. 23 at her home in Westminster, Colo.
She was born on June 16, 1910, in Pond Springs, Okla. to Adrian and Rhoda Mae REYNOLDS. Her family moved to Red Cliff, Colo. when she was very young and then to Eagle where they owned the local newspaper, the Eagle Valley Enterprise. She attended Eagle County schools where she played on the women's high school basketball team.
On September 22, 1929 Pauline married Frank BYERS in Eagle. They began a career of owning and working ranches in and around the Colorado mountains in areas now known as Camp Hale, Tennessee Pass, Beaver Creek, Vail, Lake Creek, Lake Dillon, Dillon Valley and the Blue River Valley and finally, the Muleshoe ranch near Magdalena, N.M. They sold the Muleshoe in 1990 and retired to their home in Westminster. She enjoyed cooking, needlework, sewing and making quilts for each of her great-grandchildren. Pauline loved doing puzzles and watching her grandchildren and great-grandchildren grow up in 4-H, rodeos, ranching, dance and piano.
She is preceeded in death by her husband of 68 years, her parents and four siblings, her daughter, Frances EMORE, two grandsons, Steve and Scott CULBREATH, and great-grandson, Paul DUDLEY.
Survivors include her daughter, Gail CULBREATH and husband Grady of Kremmling, six grandchildren, Cynthia (Dale) VASOLD, Lisa (Wes) PALMER, Frank (Carol) CULBREATH, all of Kremmling, Polly (Mark) HILL of Mack, Kein (Mariyn) DUDLEY of Westminster, and Tammy (Don) WILLIS of Wheatland, Wyo, 17 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great-grandson and numerous nieces and nephews including Pam SCHULTZ of Gypsum, Richard McCAIN of Eagle, Jere LEONARD of Phoenix, Ariz., and Pat CERISE of Grand Junction.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 5, at Moore-Howard Berkeley Park Chapel in Denver.
