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Submitted: 4/10/12 • Approved: 7/30/17 • Last Updated: 8/2/17 • R674773-G0-S3
September 15, 1885 - May 19, 1925
*Obituary
Rogers Democrat
Thursday, May 21 1925
CADY, George Byron - G. Byron Cady died at 6:15 Tuesday evening at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Cady, just southeast of Rogers. He had been failing rapidly for several days and his death was not unexpected by the family and intimate friends, although Byron himself refused to give up hope for recovery until the last. He was kept alive for several weeks almost solely by his determination to live and he was continually making plans for the coming summer, but the ravages of disease were too great to be overcome. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at the Presbyterian church at 3:00 o'clock and will be conducted by the pastor, Rev. Ben. H. Moore. Services will be conducted at the Rogers cemetery by the Masonic order and the Knights Templar. Mr. Cady had been troubled with poor health for several years but it was not until the first of the year, 1924, after he went to Chicago for an operation, that he became bedfast. After his return to Rogers a year ago he was able for a time to get about in a wheeled chair, but later in the summer had to spend most of his time in bed. In the fall he was taken to Tucson, Arizona by his brother, Howard Cady. Something over a month ago the physicians at the Tucson hospital notified the family that he was losing ground and advised that he come home. His father went after him and since his return he had been at the Cady home. While the friends of Mr. Cady are glad that his long months of suffering are over, they deeply regret his untimely death, for Rogers has lost one of its deservedly popular and most promising young men. Most of his forty years were spent in Rogers - and he had "made good" in every way. It is not easy for the Democrat editor to write these lines for his heart is sore at the loss of a tried and true friend of more than a quarter of a century's standing. For some six or seven years the writer and Byron were editors respectively of the Rogers Democrat and the Rogers Republican and during that entire time there was never a serious disagreement or the slightest break in their friendship. Only a couple of weeks ago the Democrat told of the resignation of Mr. Cady as postmaster of Rogers, enforced by his continued illness and absence from the office, and gave a detailed sketch of the many improvements initiated by him during his service in that position. We are glad that he was able to read and enjoy that little tribute for it was honestly earned and he was entitled to know that our people thoroughly appreciated his continued efforts to improve the local postal service. Byron Cady was a man with real executive ability and much talent and had his physical resources been equal to the demands all too generously made upon them he would have gone far in his chosen profession - that of newspaper worker. At the time when he had a firm grasp upon the rounds of the ladder of success as managing editor of the Waco [Texas) Morning News, he was compelled, because of ill health, to give it up and retire to the farm and orchard here as a member of the firm of W.R. Cady & Sons. In 1917 he was a member of the Rogers Rotary Club under the classification of "Cooperage," one of the activities of this family combination of business men. When he became acting postmaster of Rogers May 16, 1921, followed on June 1st of that year by his appointment as postmaster, he threw himself into the work with all the intense enthusiasm that he had always given to his work and we fear perhaps the indoor work and the long hours given to the study of the needs of the office and the patrons it served, was the immediate cause of the trouble that was finally diagnosed as tuberculosis of the spine, although there have been other complications that hastened his death. George Byron Cady was born in Springfield, Mo. Sept. 15, 1885 and was the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Cady of this city, Mr. Cady being at that time in the railroad service out of Springfield. Byron graduated from Rogers Academy in the class of 1903 and at once took over the management of the Rogers Republican, which had been bought by his father, then postmaster here several years earlier, and with which Byron had become well acquainted. After the sale of the Republican in 1907 Byron went to the Springfield Leader-Democrat and a year or so later became a member of the staff of the El Paso Daily Herald as railroad reporter. From El Paso he went to the San Angelo Standard and then a year or so later he went to Waco to the work previously mentioned. He was married to Miss Vivian Kruse of Rogers September 4, 1917 and to them was born one son, Jim, who is seven years old. They made their home on the Cady farms on the corner south of his father's place until he returned from the hospital a year ago when they moved to the Wing place on West Poplar. In addition to his parents, his wife and his young son, Mr. Cady is survived by his younger brother, Howard B. Cady of this city, and numerous other relatives.
Contributed on 4/10/12 by wfields55
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