Betty Bob (Diltz) Buckley, a Fort Worth pioneer in women’s journalism, as well as the mother of Tony Award-winning actress Betty Lynn Buckley and television director Norman Buckley, died June 27. She was 99.
Buckley was in hospice care for several days after a fall in her Fort Worth home led to a decline in health, her son Norman wrote on Facebook.
Buckley was known for her editorial work in The Fort Worth Press from 1952 to 1969. She later served as public relations director for Casa Mañana through the late 1970s and early 1980s before becoming one of the theater’s honorary board members…