Margetta G. Byers, 92
Published 9:17 am Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Margetta G. Byers, 92, passed away Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, in Scottsdale, Arizona.
She was born March 25, 1925, in Minnesota Lake, Minnesota, and lived most of her life in Austin, Minnesota. She was a mother, homemaker, Avon sales person, seamstress of thousands of teddy bears donated to charity and a published poet. She was a proud grandmother of 87 grand, great, and great-great grandchildren and one great-great-great grandchild.
Survivors include children, Marilyn Engstrand, Amery, Wisconsin, Raymond Byers, Astatula, Florida, Roger Byers, Lake Elmo, Minnesota, Gary Byers, Green Valley, Arizona, and Linda McKown, Scottsdale; and sisters, Evelyn Doubek, Austin, and Betty Lou Mullenbach, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Her cremated remains will be placed in the columbarium wall in Northern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Spooner, Wis., alongside her husband, Leonard. In loving memory of our mother, grant her peace.
Memorial gifts can be designated for cancer research through the Mayo Clinic.