Obituary
• Edward Byron Bryans Sr. died Nov. 20 and was buried at Trinity Memorial Park in Big Spring. He was born April 24, 1920 in Garden City to John Clarence Bryans and Iva Lee Cox Bryans. He served his country in the Army Air Corps for four years during World War II. He and Helen Partlow were married in Illinois in 1942. They moved to Roswell, N.M. from Long Beach, CA in 1985. He was a rancher and cowboy and a member of Aldersgate Methodist Church in Roswell. He is survived by his wife, Helen, of the home; children Edward Bryans Jr. and Jenny Chrisman and husband Lloyd, all of Roswell; a brother, Leonard Bryans of Dallas; two sisters, Myrl Fitzhugh of Fort Worth and Bonnell Newland of Crane, six grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.