Award-winning journalist Anita Miller Byley, who dedicated more than four decades to telling the stories of the people of Hays County, died Oct. 26 with her husband David Byley and family by her side at Ascension Seton Hospital in Kyle.

Miller served as managing editor of the Hays Free Press for more than a year before ill health required her to step down. She worked at the San Marcos Daily Record for 39 years.

A graduate of the University of Texas with a degree in journalism in 1975, she joined t...