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Ancestors of Myron Nye Humphrey

Generation No. 2

      2. Edwin Nye Humphrey, born March 22, 1913 in Chickasha, Oklahoma ¹; died May 13, 1967 in Norman, Oklahoma¹. He was the son of 4. Myron Embick Humphrey and 5. Ella McChesney Nye. He married 3. Lilian June Byrom November 04, 1939 in Mangum, Oklahoma.

      3. Lilian June Byrom, born June 10, 1918 in Brinkman, Oklahoma; died January 23, 1962 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of 6. Luther Marvin Byrom and 7. Clara Florence Cherry.

Notes for Edwin Nye Humphrey:
Ed Humphrey, my father, was born in Chickasha Okla. His father's family was
from upstate New York, where his grandfather had many business ventures,
including independent flour mills. These business ventures migrated to the
midwest, primarily South Dakota, Kansas & Oklahoma in the late 1800's.

Ed graduated from Okla University, majoring in history & math, attended the
London School of Economics in the early 1930's, and went to work for the
family company, the Chickasha Milling Company. He enlisted in the Army
in 1944 & took a commision in the Navy a few months later, serving in the
South Pacific theatre: Saipan, Guam, Ulithi, Okinawa, then back to Pearl
Harbor for a "desk job", till he mustered out in Feb'46 & went home to
Chickasha.

After the war, Ed ran the family milling company for several years, then
sold it, retaining the seed & feed warehouses located in several Texas
& Oklahoma towns. In the early 1960's Ed sold the remaining seed and
feed business, and became in an independent investor & stock broker for
Bache & Company. He died at the age of 54 in 1967.

He kept copious volumes of very detailed records of all kinds, and one of
the true "treasure troves" is a collection of letters that he & our mother
wrote each other during their separation in WWII. My brothers & I have
derived a lot of joy from these letters - my mother & father wrote each
other almost every day of their 22-month WWII separation.

Notes for Lilian June Byrom:
June Byrom, my mother, was born in Brinkman, Okla, a small town
near Mangum in southwestern Oklahoma. Mangum is near Lawton,
another small town in southwestern Oklahoma. She had 4 sisters
and 2 brothers: Carrie, Juanita, Edna, Evelyn, Marvin & Pete.

Her mother moved from Tennessee to Oklahoma when June was
only 4 years old - she never knew her father, who died when June
was 3.

June was a talented piano player & musical arranger and she was
often the "life of the party", especially if there was a piano. She
raised her 2 young sons, ages 3 &4, when Ed joined the Navy in
WWII: 1944-1945. She was 26 in 1944 and struggled with 2 young
sons during the WWII economy, living on the pay of a Navy Lt jg
gunnery officer.

June died an untimely death at the age of 43 in 1962.

She and my father wrote each other over 1400 letters during their
separation in WWII: April '44 to March '45. I'm compiling these
letters into a WWII memoir in memory of our mother & father. It's
a godsend that these letters survived, mostly intact, and my
brothers and I have had the chance to know our parents as we
never knew them before, due to their untimely deaths in 1962
and 1967.


Children of Edwin Humphrey and Lilian Byrom are:

1	i.	Myron Nye Humphrey, born Private; married Lila Yolanda Lynn Private.
	ii.	David Byrom Humphrey, born Private; married Halene Alton Private; born November 10, 1942 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; died November 2003 in Houston, Texas.
	iii.	Gilbert Edwin Humphrey, born Private.
	iv.	Linda Humphrey, born 1953; died 1953.
	v.	Douglas Cherry Humphrey, born Private; married Eileen Kunz Private; born Private.

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