18 Apr 1921 – 14 Jun 1991
2nd-Great-Grandson of Philip Cardon and Martha Marie Tourn
Great-Grandson of Catherine Cardon and Moses Byrne
Grandson of John Phillip Byrne and Edith Anne Clair
Son of Robert Charles Byrne and Leone Robbins
ROBERTSON – Services for Samuel Robert Byrne, 70, will be conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. at the American Legion Hall in Fort Bridger under the direction of the Crandall Funeral Home in Evanston.
Mr. Byrne died June 14, 1991, at the Good Shepherd Community Hospital in Hermiston, Ore. He was born April, 1921 to Robert Charles and Leone Robbins Byrne in Robertson. He attended schools in Robertson and Lyman.
He joined the service in Aug. 6, 1943 and served during World War II. Mr. Byrne was a member of the first Special Service Force and trained at Fort Harrison, Helena, Mont. He was in action in Italy, France and Germany. The Germans called the Special Force "The Black Devils," because of their ability to disrupt the German Line and they blackened their hands and faces with shoe polish.
In 1947, he went to work for the Southern Pacific and in 1954, he moved to Oregon where he worked for the Union Pacific Railroad. Mr. Byrne was a section foreman on the Heppner Branch from 1961 until retiring in 1981.
He was a resident of Ione, Ore., for the past 30 years.
On March 16, 1963, he married Grace Ford.
Survivors include his wife, Grace of Ione; his three daughters, Sammie Anderson of Bremerton, Wash., Helen J. Norton and Ramona Edwards, both of Pendleton, Ore.; two stepsons, Wayne Rollins of Twin Falls, Idaho, and Tony Hatch of Fort Worth, Texas; and his mother, Leone Byrne of Evanston. He was also survived by two sisters, Louise Walker of Lyman, Carol Hamilton of Mountain View; two brothers, Charles Byrne and George Byrne, also of Mountain View; 10 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
The Crandall Funeral Home in Evanston is in charge of Wyoming arrangements. The Burns Mortuary in Hermiston is in charge of arrangements in Oregon.
-Published in the Casper Star-Tribune, Casper Wyoming, Tuesday, June 18, 1991, page B2
Fort Bridger Cemetery, Fort Bridger, Uinta, Wyoming, Woodman of the World Section
