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Byler, Anna M. Hallman (1914-2004)

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2004 May 24 p. 7

Birth date: 1914 Feb 3

text of obituary:

Former Argentina worker dies

By Mennonite Mission Network

GOSHEN, Ind. — Anna M. Byler, a former missionary in Argentina and Uruguay, died May 8 at Greencroft Healthcare. She was 90.

Byler and her husband, Frank wee missionaries with Mennonite Board of Missions in Argentina from 1947 to 1962 and from 1975 to 1982, and in Uruguay from 1962 to 1975. They were involved in church planting, a Bible institute in Bragado and a seminary in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Byler lived in the Goshen area since 1982 and was a member of East Goshen Mennonite Church.

She was born Feb. 3, 1914, in Goshen to Eli S. and Melinda Clemens Hallman. She married Frank Byler on June 15, 1941, in Tuleta, Texas. He died July 29, 1999.

Survivors include two daughters, Marjory Byler of Chicago and Carol Byler of Bogota, Colombia; three sons, Stanley of Colorado Springs, Colo., Dennis of Burgos, Spain, and Mark of Goshen; 13 grandchildren; a great-grandson; and a brother, Abram Hallman of Goshen.

A memorial service was held at East Goshen Mennonite Church. Burial was in Elkhart Prairie Cemetery in Goshen.