Byron was born in Detroit , Michigan . She attended independent schools during her youth , such as the Westover School of Middlebury , Connecticut , and the Holton-Arms School of Bethesda , Maryland . She later moved to Williamsport , Maryland , in 1922 . The Byrons were communicants of Saint John 's Church . She was elected to Congress in a special election held May 27 , 1941 to replace her husband , Representative William D. Byron , after his death in an airplane crash in Georgia on February 27 , 1941 . She was not a candidate for reelection and retired in Washington , D.C. , which is where she also died . She is interred in Riverview Cemetery of Williamsport , Maryland
an airplane crash
Eastern Air Lines Flight 21
Katharine Byron