William Bowling "Bo" Byers, 90, journalist covered Texas for The Associated Press and Houston Chronicle
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By: The Associated Press
Published: May 25, 2010
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/longtime-houston-chronicle-reporter-bo-byers-dies-61450-.aspx
DALLAS
William Bowling "Bo" Byers, a journalist who covered Texas for decades
working for The Associated Press and the Houston Chronicle, has died.
Byers, 90, died Sunday at a hospital in Austin, said Weed-Corley-Fish
North Funeral Home office manager Michelle Besteiro. Besteiro had no
information Tuesday on a cause of death.
Byers was born April 24, 1920, in Miami, Mo. He arrived in Austin as a
child to live with relatives.
An obituary provided by the funeral home says Byers graduated from the
University of Texas with a journalism degree, then he joined the Tyler
Morning Telegraph newspaper.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps and served as a navigator on a bomber
during World War II. He returned to journalism in July 1946, joining AP
in Austin. Byers was with the international news organization until
mid-1956.
Byers then spent 27 years with the Houston Chronicle's Austin bureau,
retiring in 1983. He covered stories ranging from the Texas Veterans
Land Board scandal to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in
1963.
Byers returned to the University of Texas to obtain his master's degree
in journalism, graduating in 1993.
Byers married Mary Catherine Cowan in 1942. The couple had six children.
She died in 2006.
A funeral will be held June 2 in Austin, with burial at the Texas State
Cemetery.
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