The following is a summary of the life of my wife for 65 years Margaret Fassler Byrd ‘53.
Marge was born at home on Christmas Day 1935 to Walter and Margaret (Brown) Fassler. She was the middle of three sisters and with no brothers she became somewhat of a Tomboy and worked with her Dad milking cows, driving tractor at 12, and riding a horse to bring the cattle in from the pasture.
She went to Perry School through 8th grade then graduated from MHS at 17. With a summer program at McCook Junior College she started teaching country school and taught for 3 years. When I returned from Korea we married and lived in Milwaukee while I finished my Army enlistment. Marge worked a clerical job at American Motors. We settled in Southern CA for 13 years where she worked as a school secretary after all three of our children were in school. Her children are son Corrie, daughter Jill, and daughter Rhonda.
We then moved to Michigan in 1971 where she resumed her school secretary career, this time as secretary to a Director of Special Education and retired in 1995.
Her passions were family, arts and crafts, and especially photography. She had over 14,000 pictures in her computer she had taken herself on our trips to Mexico, Hawaii, Alaska, Scotland, Ireland, and all over the continental U.S.
When she was close to passing from Parkinson’s her granddaughter who was expecting Marge’s 5th great grand child whispered the baby’s name in Marge’s ear as they didn’t want to reveal the name until she was born. Marge kept the secret.
Her family thinks of her and misses her every day.
Terry G. Byrd (1954)
The following is a summary of the life of my wife for 65 years Margaret Fassler Byrd ‘53.
Marge was born at home on Christmas Day 1935 to Walter and Margaret (Brown) Fassler. She was the middle of three sisters and with no brothers she became somewhat of a Tomboy and worked with her Dad milking cows, driving tractor at 12, and riding a horse to bring the cattle in from the pasture.
She went to Perry School through 8th grade then graduated from MHS at 17. With a summer program at McCook Junior College she started teaching country school and taught for 3 years. When I returned from Korea we married and lived in Milwaukee while I finished my Army enlistment. Marge worked a clerical job at American Motors. We settled in Southern CA for 13 years where she worked as a school secretary after all three of our children were in school. Her children are son Corrie, daughter Jill, and daughter Rhonda.
We then moved to Michigan in 1971 where she resumed her school secretary career, this time as secretary to a Director of Special Education and retired in 1995.
Her passions were family, arts and crafts, and especially photography. She had over 14,000 pictures in her computer she had taken herself on our trips to Mexico, Hawaii, Alaska, Scotland, Ireland, and all over the continental U.S.
When she was close to passing from Parkinson’s her granddaughter who was expecting Marge’s 5th great grand child whispered the baby’s name in Marge’s ear as they didn’t want to reveal the name until she was born. Marge kept the secret.
Her family thinks of her and misses her every day.