THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, January 7, 1997 TAG: 9701070270
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: WINCHESTER LENGTH: 27 lines
Bradshaw Beverley Byrd, son of one senator and brother of another, died Sunday in Winchester Medical Center of heart failure.
Byrd, 76, was the son of the late U.S. Sen. Harry Flood Byrd Sr. and the brother of former U.S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr.
B. Beverley Byrd spent more than 50 years in the apple industry, including 26 years as vice president and production manager of H.F. Byrd Inc., one of the nation's largest apple producing companies.
At the time of his death he was president of Westwood Farm Inc., another apple producer.
Born in Winchester on Oct. 30, 1920, to Harry Byrd Sr. and Anne Douglas Beverley Byrd, Byrd was educated at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia Tech and Cornell University.
Byrd is survived by two daughters, a son and three grandchildren.
A funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in Grace Episcopal Church, Berryville. Burial will be in Old Chapel Cemetery.
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