Hyre, Floyd

Passed:

Age: 52

Source:

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1950-01-01

Information: (Date of death was sometime in 1950 due to calculated age according to obit) Hyre Rites Held Sunday Frank Hyre is Taken by a Heart Attack on Thursday Floyd Franklin Hyre, 52, a native of Jackson county and co-owner of the United Rug and Linoleum Company in Charleston and a former president of the Dunbar Glass Corporation dies Thursday night at a Charleston hospital where he had been a patient for several days following a severe heart attack.  Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Bartlett Mortuary in Charleston and the burial was in the Sunset Memorial Park in that city.  Mr. Hyre had resided in Charleston for the past 35 years.  He was born at Frozen Camp, Jackson County, Jan. 19, 1898, the son of John A. and Dora Board Hyre.  He began working for the Dunbar Glass Corp. in 1919 as a bookkeeper, advanced to purchasing agent and eventually became sales manager.  He held this position until 1939, when he was made president of the corporation.  He retired in December 1948.  He was a veteran of World War I.  Mr. Hyre was a member and trustee of St. Mark's Methodist Church and a trustee of Morris Harvey College.  He was a Mason and a Shriner and a member of the Kanawha Lodge No. 20, AF&AM, John W. Morris Consistory, Scottish Rite Bodies and Beni Kedem Shrine, and the Rotary Club.  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Frances Lewis Hyre; two sons, Lynn Lewis and Francis Floyd Jr., four brothers, H.H. and R.R. Hyre of Ripley, C.C. of Clarksburg and W.W. of Ft. Thomas, Ky.