Obituaries

Celebrate and remember the lives of late newspaper colleagues.

George J. Measer Jr., 1925–2024

Jun 1, 2024

George J. Measer Jr., 98, known for his bow ties and his community involvement as the former publisher of the Bee Newspapers of Williamsville, New York, died April 16, 2024.

DEATH NOTICE: Terry Anderson

May 1, 2024

Terry Anderson — chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press who in the 1980s was abducted and held hostage in Lebanon — died at home in Greenwood Lake, New York, on April 21 at ...

Major General Donald Forrest Ferrell, 1929-2024

May 1, 2024

Major General Donald Forrest Ferrell, USAF, Retired, was born January 6, 1929, to Forrest Shea Ferrell and Theresa Cooper Ferrell in Oklahoma City. He died at his home in Chandler, Oklahoma, on March 15, ...

Valders Journal publisher Brian Thomsen dies at 64

May 1, 2024

Brian David Thomsen, 64, of Valders, Wisconsin, died unexpectedly on Sunday, March 24, at Aurora BayCare Medical Center in Green Bay, surrounded by his family.

Mel Hodell, newspaper publisher and broker, dies at age 102

Apr 1, 2024

Hodell published 3 SoCal newspapers in the 1960s

Ramon De Vere Hansen dies at 97

Apr 1, 2024

Ramon De Vere “Ray” Hansen, former owner of the Waushara Argus in Wautoma, Wisconsin, died on Feb. 11 at Good Samaritan Center, Olathe, Kansas. He was 97.

Robert Duayne Noah, 1938-2024

Apr 1, 2024

They say a real newspaperman has ink in his blood, and that was true for Robert Duayne Noah who left this mortal earth on February 20, 2024, to join the great newsroom in the sky after a three-year battle ...

In Memoriam: James Folmer, 70

Mar 1, 2024

James Folmer, founding editor of Century Group Media's Redlands (California) Community News, died Jan. 14, 2024, at Redlands Community Hospital from complications of colon cancer, the newspaper reported. ...