Former Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. left $10,000 to 76 full-time employees with more than ten years of service at his family’s Virginia newspapers, media blogger
Jim Romenesko reported.
Sen. Byrd, who died in July at age 98, served on the board of the
Winchester Star
until his death. His son, Thomas T. Byrd, is the publisher. The Byrd family bought the paper in 1897, a year after it was founded, Romenesko reported.
Byrd left a total of $760,000 to his employees: 31 at the
Star
, 41 at the
Harrisonburg Daily News-Record
, three at the
Elkton Banner
and one at the
Warren Sentinel
, Romenesko’s report said.
Winchester Star
web editor Bobby Ford wrote to Romenesko that publisher Thomas Byrd and his siblings, Harry II and Beverley, presented the checks to the employees at a ceremony along with copies of the senator’s two books,
Defying the Odds
and
Double Trouble.
Ford wrote:
“He has shown tremendous generosity throughout the community and continues to do so in his will. But to think of his staff in this way showed his thoughtfulness and how important loyalty was to him.”
(Source: JimRomenesko.com, Sept. 15, 2013.)
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