JIM BIRSELL'S SON PASSES AWAY

 Jim Birdsell’s son Drew passes away

Drew Birdsell son of Jim Birdsell, passed away Tuesday, January 12.

 

Jim is a Monongah Fire Department captain. He lives on Shaver Street in Monongah. 

 

 

North Marion grad Jim’s dad is Edwin Birdsell, Class of 1973, who grew up on Park Avenue by Mount Calvary cemetery as a son of Zelda and Byron Birdsell, Class of 1947, a long-time Monongah mailman.

 

Byron’s brother, the late Bill Birdsell, was in my 1950 class at Monongah High and achieved fame by riding me double on his bicycle handlebars down 50 streetcar station steps in Monongah without crashing the bike or smashing my head into the concrete or plowing into stationmaster Ted McDaniel’s workplace.

 

Bill, Class of 1950, married Fairmont Field Club pro Reggie Spencer’s daughter, Barbara, and became a golf course maintenance guru in Florida where Bill’s son is in charge of the greenkeeping at the University of Florida.

 

Just to confuse me more, there’s a Byron Birdsell who is a 1982 North Marion grad who is the 1947 Byron Birdsell’s grandson.