Hazel O'Dell Lee Byrd

August 20, 1938 – September 5, 2022

Hazel O'Dell Lee Byrd, age 84, of Havre, Montana, formerly of Lillington, North Carolina, died on September 5, 2022, at the Northern Montana Care Center in Havre, Montana.  A Memorial Service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on September 10, 2022, in the Grace Chapel at Northern Montana Care Center.

Hazel was born August 20, 1938, to Eugene and Lillie (Truelove) Lee in Dunn, North Carolina.  She married Jack Byrd on August 20, 1954, and they had three children.  They were divorced in 1970.  On December 1, 1978, she married Troy Betts Byrd in Wentworth, Rockingham County, North Carolina.

Hazel worked for Lillington Shirt Factory for 13 years and later became employed by Swift Denim (formerly Erwin Mills); where she worked for 28 years until her retirement in 1998.  Her love of flowers found her working for Ann's Flowers as a retirement job.  In 2018, after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease she moved to Montana to be closer to her daughter and family.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Troy in 2003; a brother, Jimmie Lee in 1944; a brother, Douglas Lee in 2015; a sister, Joan Stone in 2016; and her sons, James Melvin Byrd in 1973 and Eugene Byrd in 2014.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Ginger and Wayne Chagnon of Havre, Montana; grandchildren:  Jessica (Danny) Boyer of Great Falls, Montana, Ryan Chagnon of Great Falls, Montana, Gray (Ashlee) Chagnon of Havre, Montana, and Leslie Benoit of Gulfport, Mississippi; six great grandchildren,   Ashton Sewell, Haven Sewell, Carter Chagnon, Charleigh Boyer, Gannon Chagnon, and Watson Chagnon; sisters, Edie Rich of Dunn, North Carolina, and Janie Gonzales of Raleigh, North Carolina; and brothers, Brent (Dawn) Lee of Erwin, North Carolina, and Harold (Kathy) Turlington, Jr. of Dunn, North Carolina.

A funeral service will be held at O'Quinn-Pebbles-Phillips Funeral Home Chapel in Lillington, North Carolina at 11:00 a.m. on September 16, 2022 with burial immediately following at Westview Memorial Gardens Cemetery.  Holland & Bonine and O'Quinn-Pebbles-Phillips Funeral Homes are in charge of the arrangements.

Memorials may be made to a charity of a person's choice.