Michael Andre Byrd Sr.

Published 9:12 pm Saturday, March 29, 2014

Funeral services for Michael Andre Byrd Sr. of Brookhaven are 11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at St. James M.B. Church with burial in Carver Heights Cemetery. Williams Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Monday, March 31, 2014, from 1 until 6 p.m. at Williams Mortuary.

Mr. Byrd, 60, died March 25, 2014, at King’s Daughters Medical Center. He was born on Sept. 6, 1953, in Brookhaven to J.B. Byrd and Verna “Kitty” Turner Byrd.

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Mr. Byrd graduated from Brookhaven High School in 1971 and from Copiah-Lincoln Community College with an air conditioning and heating degree. He was employed by the Brookhaven Police Department, Georgia-Pacific and retired from Mississippi Adolescent Center. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and was a member of St. James M.B. Church.

Preceding him in death were his father; sister, Jeanette Byrd Robinson; and brother, James B. “J.B.” Byrd Jr.

Survivors are his mother; wife, Thomaszeen Byrd of Brookhaven; daughters, Yolanda Colins of Bogue Chitto, Andella Johnson of Jacksonville, Fla., Shana Byrd of Brookhaven and Jaton Patterson of Summit; sons, Michael Byrd Jr. of Brookhaven and Jermaine Culver of Brookhaven; sister, Delores Washington of Las Vegas; and nine grandchildren; and many other relatives and friends.