Esther Byrne
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Title Esther Byrne Date 18 Aug 1998 Page 16 Periodical The Los Angeles Times Place Los Angeles, CA USA Source Type Newspaper Source ID S1116 Text BYRNE, Esther former resident of Los Angeles, daughter of Ralph M. and Eleanor Lloyd Smith and sister of Lloyd M. Smith, died peacefully in Pacific Grove, California, on August 5, 1998 at age 93.
Her parents were from Southern California but were living in Madison, Wisconsin, at the time of her birth. Her family moved to Los Angeles during her early childhood. She graduated from Los Angeles High School, as had her mother, and from the University of California at Berkeley.
She married Carlton E. Byrne, of Santa Cruz, in Lot Angeles, in 1929 and lived in Menlo Park and Palo Alto until 1942 when they moved to Loe Angeles where they lived until the mid 1960s when she and her husband moved to Santa Cruz County, near Corralitos, where they lived until early 1980s when they moved to Canterbury Woods In Pacific Grove. Carlton Byrne died there in 1985.
Aside from a career as a home-maker her major interests in Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s, including serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the University YWCA and UCLA, of which she was the chairperson In 1956, and working as a volunteer with the League of Women Voters.
She supported the activities of her mother and brother who were Firominent advocates of civil liberies and civil rights.
In 1984, she and her husband donated their 350 acre redwood property near Corralitos to the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County. Today it known as "The Byrne Forest." She it survived by her son, Dr. George M. Byrne, of La Canada Flintndge, California; three grandchildren, Kathryne B. McMullin (Scott) of Wellesley, Massachusetts, Michael K. Byrne (Mary) of Victoria. British Columbia, David P. Byrne (Vickie Carlton-Byrne) of Ojai, California and five great grandchildren, Katie M. and Ryan McMulhn, Colin M. and Andrew D. Byrne, and Evan Carlton Byrne.
A Private Memorial Service wili be held at the grave site at Santa Cruz Memorial park, in the near future. Donations in memory of Mrs. Byrne may be made to one or more of the following, The Constitutional Rights Foundation, 601 South Kingsley Drive, Los Angeles, CA. 9OO05, Carolina Friends School, 4809 Friends School Road. Durham, N.C. 27705, The Land Trust of Santa Crui Count, 734 Chestnut Street, PO Box 1287, Santa Cruz, CA. 95061.Linked to (7) Mary
BYRNE, David P
BYRNE, Katherine
BYRNE, Michael K
CARLTON, Vicki
MCMULLIN, Scott
SMITH, Esther Eleanor
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