• Born: 14 July 1911, Success, Clay County, Arkansas, USA ¹
• Marriage (1): Osbern BYES on 10 January 1927 in Success, Clay County, Arkansas, USA ^{1 2}
• Died: 15 March 2004, Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi, USA at age 92
• Buried: 20 March 2004, Success, Clay County, Arkansas, USA

   Other names for Goldie were Goldie I. BYES, Goldie REAVES and Golda REEVES.¹

  Death Notes

Biloxi Regional Hospital

  Burial Notes

Hitt Cemetery

  Recorded Events in Her Life

• She appeared on the census in 1920 in Brown Township, Clay County, Arkansas, USA.

• She had a residence on 10 January 1927 in Success, Clay County, Arkansas, USA. ¹

• She appeared on the census in 1930 in Carpenter, Clay County, Arkansas, USA.

• Last Residence: Bef 15 March 2004, Corning, Clay County, Arkansas, USA.

• Her funeral was held by Ermert Funeral Home in their chapel at 2 pm (Saturday) on 20 March 2004 in Corning, Clay County, Arkansas, USA. The Rev. Billy J. Snow officiatied. Visitation was held the evening before, Friday the 19th, from 6 to 8 p.m. Burial was in the Hitt Cemetery in Success.

• Her obituary was published in several local newspapers on 21 March 2004 in Arkansas, USA.
  
  GOLDIE ILA REEVES BYES of Corning, Arkansas died on Monday, 15 March 2004, at Biloxi Regional Hospital in Biloxi, Mississippi. She was 92 years old. Goldie was born in Success, Arkansas on 14 July 1911, the daughter of Thomas Reeves and his wife, Ava Berry.
  
  She married Osborn ("O.B.") Byes on 10 January 1927 in Success, and together they raised three children. Goldie was a homemaker, and she also worked on the family farm. She was a member of the Moark Highway Tabernacle Church in Corning.
  
  Goldie was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; two sons, Leroy Byes, and Richard Byes; two grandchildren, Tawona Smith and Richard Byes, Jr.; three brothers, Monte Reeves, Jeff Reeves and Johnny Knowlton; and two sisters, Fleda Lester and Lura Dean Lester.
  
  Survivors include one daughter, ----- ----- of Biloxi; eight grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great-grandchildren.
  
  Funeral services were conducted at 2 pm, Saturday afternoon, on 20 March 2004, in the Ermert Funeral Home Chapel in Corning. The Reverend Billy J. Snow officiatied. Burial was in the Hitt Cemetery in Success.
  
  [this is my slightly-reworded compilation of several different published obituaries from various local newspapers; posted on her FindAGrave memorial in Oct 2015, kmh]

Goldie married Osbern BYES, son of Marion M. BYES and Sylvester Lucinda UPPERMAN, on 10 January 1927 in Success, Clay County, Arkansas, USA.^{1 2} (Osbern BYES was born on 11 November 1906 in Clay County, Arkansas, USA, died on 23 April 1993 in Corning, Clay County, Arkansas, USA and was buried on 25 April 1993 in Success, Clay County, Arkansas, USA.)

  Marriage Notes

Apparently a double wedding... Osbern Byes married Goldie Reeves on 10 Jan 1927 in Success, Clay County, Arkansas, and Monte Reeves (Goldie's older brother) also married Ghita Byes (Osbern's younger sister) on that same day. ²