PHELAN,
Byron Sylvester
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.