Elsie Bynum, 96, of Waco, passed away Tuesday, June 5 at a local nursing home. Services will be 2 pm Saturday, June 9 at Bellmead Funeral Home chapel with David Hunter and Rusty Kwast officiating. Burial will be at Oakwood cemetery. Visitation will be 6 to 8 pm Friday, June 8 and 12:30 to 2:00 pm Saturday, June 9 at the funeral home. Mrs. Bynum was born September 9, 1915, in Rusk, Texas to James and Dorothy (Fitzgerald) Keahey. She graduated from Iron Hill High School in Rusk, Texas in 1933 and was a longtime member of Northside Church of Christ. She had recently attended Robinson Church of Christ. Mrs. Bynum was preceded in death by her parents; 13 brothers and sisters; her husband, Henry Clifton Bynum in December 1991; and 3 sons, Kenneth Wayne, Donald Earl and John Armin Bynum. Survivors include her sons, L. Ray Bynum and wife, Elizabeth of Waco, Byron Glen Bynum of Arizona and Jerry Don Bynum and wife, Kathleen of North Carolina; 16 grandchildren; and numerous great grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be, grandsons and great grandsons.