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Submitted: 3/27/21 • Approved: 3/30/21 • Last Updated: 4/2/21 • R402099-G402099-S3
April 7, 1958 - January 10, 2004
Angela Byrd Karasek, 45, died in Tyler Jan. 10, 2004. Funeral services were held at Trinity Lutheran Church on Jan. 13 with Pastor Art Hill officiating. Burial was at Center Valley Cemetery near Hamilton.
She was born April 7, 1958 in Arlington, the daughter of Luther and Ruby Oustad Byrd. She gradu-ated from Arlington High School in 1976 and from Austin College in 1979 with a business degree.
Mrs. Karasek worked for Dunn and Bradstreet in the early 1980s. She bought a home and moved to Fort Worth in 1983 and went into banking in 1984 in Arlington.
She was married to David Karasek in 1985.
Her son Scott was born in February of 1988 and Bryan in March, 1990. She moved to Tyler in August of 1991. In 1992 she went to work at Kilgore First National Bank, where she worked for three years before going back to college where she took the required accounting courses and passed the CPA exam.
For the last four years, she worked for Tyler Jet as an accountant.
She was preceded in death by her mother and her grandmother, Eula Oustad of Hamilton.
Survivors include her husband, David Karasek of Tyler; her sons, Scott and Bryan Karasek of Tyler; her father, Luther Byrd of Arlington; a brother, Joe Byrd of Arlington; five nephews; four nieces; six great-nephews and seven great-nieces.
Pallbearers were Larry Frowick, Dan Gerber, Steve Harms, Howard Story, Joe Thomas and Lyn Rice.
Memorials may be made to Trin-ity Lutheran Church, 2001 Hunter Street, Tyler, Tx, 75701.
Loyd James Funeral Home
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