Eivind Gardner BYE

1929 - 1968  (39 years)

• Name	Eivind Gardner BYE
  Birth	30 Jun 1929	Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	13 Oct 1929	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  	Our Savior or Bethlehem
  Minnesota Birth Certificate	1929-19405
  Death	21 Dec 1968	St. Louis, Missouri
  Burial	24 Dec 1968	Masonic Cemetery, Piedmont, Wayne County, Missouri
  Notes	He went into the National Honor Society in his junior year at Washington High School in Fergus Falls which meant he was in the upper 5% of his class. He began an internship at McCormick Osteopathic Hospital and Clinic in or near Moberly, Missouri, in June of 1953. His obituary in the 23 December 1968 edition of the Fergus Falls Daily Journal: Dr. Eivind Bye, 38, son of the late Eivind Bye and Mrs. Pearl Bye, now Mrs. Charles Lambert of Mesa, Arizona, was killed in the crash of his own plane near St. Louis, Missouri, Saturday. He was accompanied by his partner who is also an attorney. He, too, died in the crash which occurred in heavy fog. Mr. Bye was born in Fergus Falls, was baptized and confirmed in the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, and was graduated from the Fergus Falls High School in 1947. He took his pre-medical studies at Concordia College, Moorhead; he received his doctorate in osteopathy at Cooksville, Missouri, College of Osteopathy. He practiced osteopathy as physician and surgeon at Piedmont, Missouri. He is survived by his wife, Patricia, and four daughters - Lisa, Laura, Linda, and Mary-Elizabeth, his mother, and one sister, Mrs. Donald (Diane) Machande, Edina. Mrs. Lambert arrived Sunday from Mesa and will attend services at Piedmont, Missouri. It had been planned to bring the remains here for burial in the family lot but because of the severe weather conditions it was decided to have the chapel services this evening and services and interment Tuesday in Piedmont, Missouri. A newspaper article included with his entry in Find A Grave: PIEDMONT, MO. (UPI) - Funeral services will be conducted today for Roy W. McGhee and Dr. E. G. Bye, both members of the Piedmont City Council, who were killed late Saturday when McGhee’s light plane smashed into the top of Clark’s Mountain in heavy fog. The bodies were found near the peak of the 1,500 foot mountain. The plane had partially burned. McGhee, 42, was also Piedmont’s city attorney. He was the son of Circuit Judge Roy W. McGhee Sr., and the father of seven daughters. He had been a law school classmate of Governor Warren E. Hearnes at the University and was an honorary Missouri colonel. Bye, 39, operated an osteopathy clinic. He was the father of four daughters. A blog entry from 2009 that talks about Clark’s Mountain: “Ask anybody in town about Clark’s Mountain, and they’ll either tell you to watch out for snakes when you climb it, or they’ll tell you about the plane crash that happened in 1968. That year, right before Christmas, the only doctor and lawyer in town punched their Beechcraft Bonanza into the south slope on their way back from a shopping trip to Cape Giradeau. Ironically, one of the new lawyers in town recently built himself a two story lodge on the side of the mountain that overlooks the golf course, a stick throw away from the plane crash.”
  Person ID	I4918	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	8 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	Eivind George BYE,   b. 13 Oct 1897, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota d. 1 Aug 1950, Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota (Age 52 years)
  Mother	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
  Family ID	F919	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Jennie Lee WOLFF,   b. 15 Nov 1930, East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Illinois d. 29 Nov 2002, Los Angeles County, California (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	2 Jul 1951	Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  	also married 2 Aug 1951 in Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri
  Divorce	Abt 1961
  Children	1. Beth Anne BYE,   b. 19 Mar 1954, Mokane, Callaway County, Missouri d. Feb 1974, Mexico (Age 19 years)   2. Sherri Diane BYE,   b. 25 Aug 1956, Missouri d. 15 Apr 1992, Fresno County, California (Age 35 years)
  Family ID	F3789	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Mar 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Patricia J WOOD,   b. 16 May 1935, Missouri d. 20 Dec 2007, Harris County, Texas (Age 72 years)
  Family ID	F13797	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2020