We are sorry to inform you that Dr. Robert Harris Byler. Jr. (Bob Byler) ’52, passed away Saturday, April 28, succumbing to cancer.  He was 87. Byler was known the world over or his lifelong love of jazz, especially Dixieland. As a journalist, he wrote in The Mississippi Rag for decades and other publications and into his twilight years for the Venice Gondolier Sun as he followed the local jazz scene on the SunCoast.  

He will be deeply missed by all those whose lives he touched.

Read his full obituary here.