Terry “Mike” Byrd, passed away on December 11^th, 2018 in Galveston, TX.  He was 64 years old.

Mike was born on January 28^th, 1954, in St. Louis, Mo, to the parents of Bill Byrd and Jesse Mae Garland

He was a strong man, full of integrity, who loved his job as a commercial plumbing project manager at Belknap Plumbing and his co-workers were like family to him.  Mike liked fishing, traveling, and playing guitar.  He also had a huge, kind, and romantic heart. He would often surprise Brenda with flowers or jewelry, wrote songs that he played on his guitar and came home every day with a new poem that he had written and couldn’t wait to share and read it out loud.

Mike is preceded in death by his father Bill Byrd and his very special grandparents Jesse James and Olga Mae Tucker and niece, Angela Byrd

He is survived by his wife, Brenda Byrd, his mother and step-father Jesse Mae and T. Ray Garland, and his step-mother Bertha Byrd, his children, Amanda Byrd Peri, Shawn Byrd and his wife, Jennifer Byrd, his grandchildren Mikayla Peri, Ashlyn Peri, Jacob Peri, Jason Chaviers, Jacob Chaviers, Lauren Chaviers, and Layne Byrd.  Mike was also due to be honored in a couple of weeks in giving away his granddaughter, Mikayla, to his future grandson in law, Ayden Rios.

He was blessed with many siblings: Gary Byrd and his wife Debby, Jerry Byrd, Jesse Ray Garland and his wife Anna, Mark Garland and his wife Cheryl, Cheryl Ann Bogner and her husband Michael, Diann Crawford and her husband Jon, Renee Forte and her husband Larry, and Enola Byrd. He so loved his family to include in-laws, cousins, nieces and nephews, and his many friends.

Services will be held at Crowder Funeral Home, 1645 E. Main St, League City, TX 77573.  Brenda, Amanda, and Shawn will receive friends and family on Friday, December 14, 2018 at 3pm and services will begin at 4pm.  In lieu of sending flowers, Mike would have wanted donations made, for the sake of his grandchildren, to The Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation or the Epilepsy Foundation.