Eivind George BYE

1897 - 1950  (52 years)

• Name	Eivind George BYE
  Birth	13 Oct 1897	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	31 Oct 1897	Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  	First English Lutheran in Fergus Falls with George Marvin Bye.
  Confirmation	15 Aug 1912	Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  	perhaps First English Lutheran in Fergus Falls
  MN Death Cert Checked	Y
  Minnesota Death Certificate	1950-MN-011257
  Occupation	Carpenter, Mail Carrier
  Death	1 Aug 1950	Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota
  	Colonial Hospital, Mayo clinic
  Burial	Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  Notes	Registered for the WWI draft on September 12, 1918, at Fergus Falls. His permanent address is 816 Court Street South, Fergus Falls. He was a student at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. His nearest relative is J. E. Bye of the Court Street address. He is of medium height and build with blue eyes and brown hair. In the 1920 census, he is living at home with his parents. In the 1930 census, he is married and living at 815 Cascade Street in Fergus Falls in a house that he owns. He is a mail carrier for the post office, an occupation he also had in the 1920 census. In the 1931 city directory, he and Pearl E reside at 815 Cascade S. He is a post office carrier. In the 1935/36 Fergus Falls city directory, he is a mail carrier. He and Pearl live at 815 Cascade South. Same in the 1937/38 Fergus Falls city directory. Same in the 1939/40 Fergus Falls city directory; their telephone number was 1194J. In the 1941/42 city directory, the address for him and Pearl is 816 Court Street. In the 1940 census, he and Pearl and their two children live at 815 S. Cascade in Fergus Falls, a house they own worth $5000, the same house in which they lived in 1935. He is a postal clerk at the post office. He had one year of high school. Pearl had four years of high school. He died from lung cancer. He had been at the Colonial Hospital, apparently part of the Mayo Clinic, for a week before he died. His usual address was 816 Court Street in Fergus Falls. His obit, in the Fergus Falls Daily Journal, 2 August 1950: Eivind Bye, 52, well-known post office employee and a life-long resident of this city, died at Rochester yesterday afternoon following an operation. He was taken ill in June while on vacation. He was hospitalized in this city for a time and then was taken to Rochester a week ago. Death was caused by cancer of the lungs. Mr. Bye was born in this city Oct 13, 1897, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Bye. He attended the public schools and was graduated from Fergus Falls High with the class of 1918. He became a city mail carrier in December of 1918 and was transferred to the position of post office clerk in 1937. On July 14, 1921, Mr. Bye was united in marriage to Pearl Gardner. She and two children survive. The children are Eivind Bye, Jr., who is a student in the College of Osteopathy and Surgery at Kirksville, Missouri, and Diane who graduated from high school here last spring. He died at Colonial Hospital and lived at 816 Court.
  Person ID	I1271	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	25 Sep 2015

  
  

  Father	Johannes Eliassen BYE,   b. 5 Jun 1866, Byvald, Verdal (Vårdalen), Nord-Trøndelag, Norway d. 11 Nov 1940, Otter Tail County, Minnesota (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Anna E NESS,   b. 22 Jan 1859, Østerdalen, Hedmark, Norway d. 30 Jun 1948, Otter Tail County, Minnesota (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	22 Dec 1891	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  Family ID	F876	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Pearl Elizabeth GARDNER,   b. 10 Oct 1899, Union County, South Dakota d. 17 Oct 1994, Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona (Age 95 years)
  Marriage	14 Jul 1921
  	probably Fergus Falls
  Children	1. Eivind Gardner BYE,   b. 30 Jun 1929, Otter Tail County, Minnesota d. 21 Dec 1968, St. Louis, Missouri (Age 39 years)
  Family ID	F919	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Jan 2012

  
  

• Photos

  Johannes Bye family This is taken in 1933 on the front steps of 816 Court Street in Fergus Falls, the home at the time of (from left) Johannes Bye, Eivind George Bye, Anna Ness Bye, and Pearl Gardner Bye. Pearl is holding Diane. Eivind Gardner is in front of his grandma.