{"id":96514,"date":"2024-02-03T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=96514"},"modified":"2024-02-02T14:11:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T19:11:13","slug":"byers-leslie-age-87-mount-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/obituaries\/2024\/02\/byers-leslie-age-87-mount-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Byers, Leslie (Age 87, Mount Forest)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-96515 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2024\/02\/e48a934a-byers-leslie-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Surrounded by his family at home on Thursday, February 1st, Leslie Byers passed away in his 88th year. Cherished husband of Virginia Byers for 61 years. Beloved father of Michelle &amp; Marc Klis, Mark &amp; Joanne Byers, and Krista &amp; Rob Quesnel. Adored Grandpa of 6 and great-grandfather of 3. Predeceased by his grandchildren Brendan, Susie, and Meagan. Dear brother of Jean Watson and Joyce Keeling, and brother-in-law of Ron &amp; Elizabeth Stearne. Survived by many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by brothers-and sisters-in-law Bill Watson, Murray Keeling, Jack Stearne, and Shirley Stephens. Visitation will be held at the England Funeral Home, Mount Forest, on Sunday from 2:00-4:00 and 6:00-8:00 p.m. The funeral service will be held at Mount Forest United Church on Monday, February 5th at 11:00 a.m., with visitation at the church from 10:00-10:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englandfuneralhome.com\/obituaries\/1966\/Leslie-Stewart-Byers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click HERE to read full obituary.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrounded by his family at home on Thursday, February 1st, Leslie Byers passed away in his 88th year. Cherished husband of Virginia Byers for 61 years. Beloved father of Michelle &amp; Marc Klis, Mark &amp; Joanne Byers, and Krista &amp; Rob Quesnel. Adored Grandpa of 6 and great-grandfather of 3. Predeceased by his grandchildren Brendan,","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6775,101,102],"class_list":["post-96514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-byers","tag-england-funeral-home","tag-mount-forest"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 05:37:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/obituaries\/2024\/02\/byers-leslie-age-87-mount-forest\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96516,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96514\/revisions\/96516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}