Receptionist who worked 70 years at Elberton paper dies

<p>The Elberton Star has lost the first person most visitors or callers to the newspaper encountered. The newspaper said Katherine Bryant died on Wednesday, only weeks after marking her 70th anniversary with the newspaper.</p><p>"Really, she pretty much ran this place, top to bottom," said Kerri Pruitt, who took Bryant's place as the newspaper's receptionist. "I always like to call her the matriarch."</p><p>Bryant went to work for the newspaper's job-printing department, printing business cards, stationery, posters and similar jobs, when Star owner Gradus T. Christian hired her in 1937.</p><p>She went on to manage office supply sales and work at many other jobs at the newspaper. The newspaper's Web site lists her job as "office staff," and Bryant pretty much was the entire office staff, said Pruitt, who trained for months under Bryant.</p><p>Bryant is survived by three sons, Donald, Eddie Lee and David Boswell, and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.</p><p>Bryant said she started working at the paper when she was 16, but an obituary lists here as dying at age 84.</p><p>Her funeral is scheduled for Saturday at 11 a.m. at Berry Funeral Home in Elberton.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x2dea0fc)</p>

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