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Ellis Byers
Ellis Byers was born February 4, 1943, in Jackson, Mississippi, in the old Jackson Infirmary, firstborn of Camille Kennedy Byers of Smith County (Sullivan’s Hollow), Mississippi, a...view moreEllis Byers was born February 4, 1943, in Jackson, Mississippi, in the old Jackson Infirmary, firstborn of Camille Kennedy Byers of Smith County (Sullivan’s Hollow), Mississippi, and Lieutenant Ellis S. Byers, United States Army Air Corps, whose hometown was Lovington, New Mexico.
He was educated in public schools in Lovington and Jackson, and at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
His career includes stints as bartender, retail salesman, journalist and publisher, bookseller, advertising executive and media spokesman. He retired in New York two days before the 9-11 attack on the WTC.view less