Myrtle Theodora BYE

1903 - 1967  (63 years)

• Name	Myrtle Theodora BYE
  Birth	25 Aug 1903	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  Gender	Female
  Baptism	20 Sep 1903	Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  	Bethlehem Lutheran, sponsors were Mrs. Sophie Bye, Nette or Mette Hagen, Martin Bye, and Harald Wold.
  MN Birth Cert Checked	Y
  Minnesota Birth Certificate	1903-18586
  Occupation	Public School Teacher
  Oregon Death Certificate	2822
  Death	8 Feb 1967	Multnomah County, Oregon
  Burial	Wilhelm’s Portland Memorial Mausoleum, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon
  	cremated
  Notes	Her birth certificate was amended on February 28, 1944. The May 18, 1921, edition of the Fergus Falls Ugeblad, a Norwegian language newspaper, records her as graduating in the “Commercial Course” of some school whose name can’t be determined by me (probably a high school). Her second cousin Mildred Bye was recorded in the same article as graduating in that school’s “Classical Course.” The 1925 North Dakota census records a 22 year-old Myrtle Bye living in Fargo, North Dakota. In the 1925 Astoria, Oregon, city directory, probably prepared in 1924, she was Myrtle Bye, Public School Teacher, living at 397 4th. She was “of Astoria” at the time of her mother’s death. That would have been Astoria, Oregon, in Clatsop County. Myrtle T. Bye, age 26 and a single public school teacher, was living in Portland, Oregon, lodging with a Melin family at the time of the 1930 census. She was born in Minnesota and her parents were born in Norway. In the 1940 census, she and Leo D lived in the Rose Park section of Portland with Robert, 16, Floyd, 14, and Patsey, 7. In the 1950 census, she was divorced and was an elementary school teacher. She lived at 4215 NE 114th with her daughter Patricia and her step-son Floyd. Her usual residence at her time of death was 4215 N.E. 114th Avenue in Portland. She died at 5505 S.E. 136th Avenue. She died of colon cancer. Her daughter Patricia was the informant for her death certificate. According to Michael: She was called "Teddy" when she was a young woman. She attended normal school in Minot, North Dakota, and moved to Oregon to teach. Myrtle never remarried and died of cancer in Portland in 1967. She was very strong-willed and an extremely capable and dedicated teacher. The primary school where she last taught held a small memorial service for her and planted a tree in her honor. {Myrtle} taught first grade for many years in the Parkrose School District. Her obit in The Oregonian: Mrs. Myrtle T. Boyle, 4215 NE 114th Ave., died Wednesday at Portland after an extended illness. Her funeral will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Gethsemane Lutheran Church. Mrs. Boyle was born Aug. 25, 1903, at Fergus Falls, Minnesota, and came to Oregon in 1922. She taught in the Parkrose Schools for more than 20 years. She was a member of Gethsemane Lutheran Church. Survivors include two sons, Floyd, of Portland, and Robert, of Wishram, Wash.; one daughter, Patricia Taylor, of Portland; 11 grandchildren; two brothers, John Bye, of Portland, and George Bye, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and two sisters, Mabel Haugen, of Portland, and Margaret Ellingboe, of Hemet, Calif. The family requests that any remembrance be in the form of a contribution to the Gethsemane Lutheran Church Building Fund.
  Person ID	I1222	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	3 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Johan Edvard Martinusson (John M) BYE,   b. 28 Dec 1869, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway d. 2 Jun 1922, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Grethe Johanna Mikalsdatter (Gertie) HAGA,   b. 20 Dec 1872, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway d. 12 Oct 1926, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	4 Jun 1895	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  Family ID	F100	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Leo Donald BOYLE,   b. 12 May 1901, Iowa d. 18 Oct 1967, Klamath County, Oregon (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	2 Jan 1931	Klamath County, Oregon
  	in Klamath Falls by a justice of the peace; his 2nd marriage, her first
  Divorce	10 Aug 1942	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon
  	Filed for by wife and grounds of cruelty, the divorce was uncontested.
  Children	1. Patricia Mae BOYLE,   b. 29 Oct 1932, Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Oregon d. 30 Nov 2022, Sandy, Clackamas County, Oregon (Age 90 years)
  Family ID	F888	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Sep 2024