Byron Sylvester Phelan |
| Posted 2023-07-09 by Pat R |
| Wickenburg Sun (Wickenburg, Arizona) Friday, April 18, 1958, p. 1 Byron S. Phelan Rites Were Held At St. Anthony's Funeral services for Byron S. Phelan were conducted by the Rev. D. F. O'Sullivan in St. Anthony's Catholic Church at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning. Burial followed in St. Francis Cemetery, Phoenix. A rosary for the deceased was held Monday night in the Wickenburg Chapel. Mr. Phelan, proprietor of the Cactus Garden Lodge on Highway 60-70 east of town, died in his home at 5:30 p.m. April 11, after a long illness. Mr. Phelan was born January 3, 1904, in Mobelles, N.D. While still a young boy he moved with his family to Great Falls, Mont., where he graduated from High School. He was a graduate of Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. In 1930 he was married at Great Falls to Alice Synness and for a number of years they engaged in the hotel and coffee shop business in Helena, Mont. Mr. & Mrs. Phelan moved to Phoenix in December, 1944, and the following January purchased Cactus Garden Lodge from Mr. & Mrs. Earl Field. Survivors include the widow and two brothers, Alban Phelan of Chicago, and Marcus Phelan of Grass Valley, Calif. Two other brothers are deceased. Here for the services were a niece, Mrs. Barbara Soderstrom of Seattle, Wash., and Mrs. Richard Nehls of Great Falls, a sister of a sister-in-law. Pallbearers for the services were Harold Park, Earl Field, Tony Vukovich and Lester Stout, Sr., of Wickenburg; Marshall Haislip, Phoenix; and Walter Crombie of Olympia, Wash. Honorary pallbearers were J. E. O'Connell and Alfred Hibbard of Helena, Mont.; T. J. Dwyer of Napa, Calif.; Dr. Allen Starry of Sioux City, Ia.; Earl France of Alma, Wash.; James Terry of Phoenix; Richard Nehls and Arthur Gillis of Great Falls, Mont.; and Dr. Floyd Bralliar of Wickenburg. |
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