Beverly Bryan, age 73, an Emmy Award-winning television news and production photographer/editor and producer for more than 37 years, died Thursday, November 3rd, 2022, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

In 1975, Ms. Bryan joined KAKE-TV in Wichita, Kansas, as a news film editor. A year later, she was hired as Oklahoma's first woman television news photographer at KTEW (now KJRH) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. From Tulsa, Ms. Bryan worked at WCKT (now WSVN) and WPLG in Miami, Florida, and then on to WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C., where she worked until early retirement led her back to Tulsa in 2007.

During Ms. Bryan's career in Miami, her work included covering the Cuban Mariel Boatlift, the cocaine drug wars and subsequent killings, Haitians arriving onshore in rickety boats seeking freedom, and the Miami riots after the McDuffie verdict.

Ms. Bryan won numerous awards for her work including four regional Emmys, numerous awards from National Press Photographers Association, and nine awards from the White House News Photographers Association. In 1998, she was honored in the Oval Office of the White House by President Bill Clinton for winning a First Place in Editing from the White House New Photographers Association. In 2001, Ms. Bryan was recognized by President George W. Bush for winning the White House News Photographers Association's highest honor, "Editor of the Year".

Ms. Bryan's work in Washington included national coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the 9/11 tragedy, and the search for Chandra Levy.

Beverly Bryan, a native Oklahoman, was born in Norman and grew up in Wichita, Kansas, Ponca City, Oklahoma, and Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She was a 1971 graduate of Northeastern Oklahoma State University in Tahlequah, studied film production at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and earned a Masters in Journalism and Public Affairs, in 1996, at The American University, in Washington, D.C.

Rosary will be said on Monday, November 14th, at 7:00 p.m. and Funeral Mass will be Tuesday, November 15th, at 11:00 a.m., both at Church of the Madalene, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

To honor Beverly's memory, please consider a donation to The Humane Society of Tulsa.

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