Obituaries : Frank Douglas Byron; Grading Contractor
Frank Douglas Byron, a grading contractor and 30-year Ventura County resident, died Sunday of a stroke. He was 51.
Byron was born Jan. 19, 1945, in Omaha. For 22 years, he worked as a grading contractor, most recently for Don McCoy Corp. of Dana Point.
“He didn’t build buildings,” said Byron’s wife of five years, Lee Ann Byron, “he estimated how much dirt to move before the building was built.”
A resident of the Westlake neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, Byron was a member of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, and in 1990 was Master of the Conejo Valley Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons.
An avid outdoorsman, Byron loved hunting and fishing. “Frank was a really wonderful man,” Lee Ann Byron said. “He was a good teacher. He made people better people.”
In addition to his wife, Byron is survived by two daughters, Dana Elizabeth Byron and Suzanne Alletta Byron, both of Newbury Park.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. today at Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Mortuary, Westlake Village.
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