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Obituaries
Celebrate and remember the lives of late newspaper colleagues. BROUGHT TO YOU BY 
Daniel Rodgers (1943-2019)
Jun 16, 2020
Daniel H. Rodgers, former advertising manager for the Sequoyah County Times in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, died Oct. 5, 2019.
Patsy Muchmore (1937-2019)
Jun 16, 2020
Patsy Willene Muchmore, an Oklahoma journalist, died Nov. 7, 2019, in Clearwater, Florida.
Harry Brandt Ayers (1935–2020)
Jun 1, 2020
Harry Brandt Ayers died at his home on May 3. He was 85 years old. After serving in the Navy, Ayers returned to Anniston for a brief stint working for his family’s newspaper, The Anniston Star.
Debra Buker (1953–2020)
May 28, 2020
Debra became editor of the Perrysburg Messenger-Journal in 2003. She retired as editor at the end of August 2018 but stayed on to help for about 10 hours a week through June 2019.
Philip Austin Berkebile (1936–2020)
May 28, 2020
Berkebile retired as executive vice president of the Texas Daily Newspaper Association in 2004 after serving 22 years in Austin, Texas.
Publisher of The Carolina Times dies, possibly marking the end of the historic paper
May 28, 2020
Edmonds’ son, Christian Edwards, said the newspaper’s April 18 issue will likely be its last.
Raymond J. Prince (1944–2020)
May 28, 2020
Prince had consulted in numerous operational areas that cover the gamut of disciplines from sheetfed and web–press testing and solving paper and ink problems, to color–control systems and paper ...
Thomas Francis Missett (1940–2020)
May 28, 2020
Tom was 26 when he arrived in North County in 1967 and took over the "Blade" newspaper, making him the youngest publisher of a daily paper in the U.S.
