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Submitted: 1/24/13 • Approved: 7/8/16 • Last Updated: 7/11/16 • R820673-G0-S3
July 10, 1905 - April 11, 1987
*Obituary
Byron Miles Carolan, age 81, of Melbourne, Arkansas, died April 11, 1987 at the Baxter Regional Hospital in Mountain Home. A high school vocational agriculture teacher by profession, he was a Navy Veteran of WWII, a Mason, a member of the Lions Club, and B Bryon was the son of Samuel Edgar Carolan and Minnie Hale Lacy. He married Wanda Mae Cook on May 9, 1947 in Melbourne, Izard County, Arkansas and they had one son Samuel Jefferson Carolan.
Survivors include his wife, Wanda Cook Carolan of Melbourne; one son, Samuel Jefferson Carolan of Melbourne; and one brother, Howell Carolan of Napa, California.
Services were held Monday, April 13 at the Howard Chapel in Melbourne with Brothers Tim Porter and Leonard Williams officiating. Burial was in the Melbourne Cemetery under the direction of Howard Funeral Home.
Pallbearers were Son Lamb, Jeff Mitchell, J. Harris, Rex Fate, J. W. Helm, and James Cook.
See veteran's memorial.
Contributed on 1/24/13 by sandhollow
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