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| Bryson, Edgar Lee 214231 |
| Birth: 09/13/1907 Death: 05/08/1998 Marriage: 03/06/1947 |
| Cemetery: Highland (9 FRT SW) |
| Record Source: The Paris News |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/15/2025) |
| Notes THE PARIS NEWS, Fri., May 8, 1998, p. 4B: 'Deport -Ed (Edgar Lee) Bryson, died Friday, May 8, 1998, at Deport Nursing Home. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 9, at Wood Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Highland Cemetery. A veterans newspaperman, Mr. Bryson was born Sep. 13, 1902 [sic], in Deport. He attended school in Lamar and Red River County, including Paris High School and Paris Junior College. His first newspaper job was with the DEPORT TIMES, BOGATA NEWS and TALCO TIMES where he worked until he entered the U.S. Navy in Dec. 1941 and served in the states and the Pacific until the end of the war. He then moved back to Texas and married Edith [Anita] Reece in 1947. She died Sep. 16, 1994. He was employed by THE PARIS NEWS and THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS as a reporter, then in Beaumont where he was city editor for THE BEAUMONT ENTERPRISE moving to chief editor/writer at the BEAUMONT JOURNAL where he also reviewed books. He retired in 1971 and returned to THE PARIS NEWS as a feature writer until 1986. He started his writing career when a boy doing poems and journal stores. He later became a special writer for the Associated Press. He contributed to national magazines and did other writings. He was a Methodist, 50 year Mason, and a member of the American Legion. Surviving are two brothers, Kenneth Bryson of Shreveport, LA and Curtis Bryson of Burkburnett; two nephews he helped rear, Robert Bryson of Shreveport and Donald Bryson of Ogden, Utah; several nephews and nieces including Docky Bryson of Irving, Jerry Bryson of Sherman, Gordon Bryson of Tyler, and Barbara Odom of Dallas; and two sisters-in-law, Lois McHam of Atoka, OK and Venice Bryson of Deport.' |
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