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Celebrate and remember the lives of late newspaper colleagues.
Apr 1, 2023
Sharon Sheets Taylor, 86, Archbold, Ohio, died March 12, 2023, at home after a long battle with dementia.
Apr 1, 2023
Theresa Marie “Terry” Coady, age 87, died February 22, 2023 (one day before her 88th birthday) in her home in Fort Washington, Maryland, after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s Disease.
Mar 1, 2023
Bob Pinkerton, a giant in the world of community newspapering and a pillar of his own community in Kimball, has died. The former Western Nebraska Observer editor and publisher died Jan. 22 at the age ...
Mar 1, 2023
James Buford Boone Jr., who followed his father James Buford Boone Sr. into the newspaper business, and whose extended family has expanded into a country-wide publishing business, has died at 87.
Mar 1, 2023
Veteran journalist, historian and civic leader William Light “Bill” Kinney Jr., 89, of Bennettsville died peacefully at his family antebellum home, Magnolia, under the loving care of his daughter, ...
Mar 1, 2023
Longtime Command Information Officer and Fort Leavenworth (Kansas) Lamp Editor Robert “Bob” Kerr passed away Jan. 23, 2023, following a short but fierce battle with cancer — although ...
Feb 1, 2023
LA GRANDE, Oregon — Bob Moody was lying flat on his back in a hospital bed when he was asked to become publisher of The Observer in 1974.
Feb 1, 2023
Arthur H. Kern, an entrepreneur who co-founded radio conglomerate American Media and served as co-owner and co-publisher of The Ark in Tiburon, California, for more than a decade, died Nov. 16, 2022 ...
Feb 1, 2023
Rhonda Kaye Humble, 66, of Olathe, Kansas, peacefully passed away Sept. 24, 2022, at Olathe Medical Center.