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Jun 16, 2020
Daniel H. Rodgers, former advertising manager for the Sequoyah County Times in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, died Oct. 5, 2019. He was 76.
Rodgers was born Oct. 3, 1943, in Wasco, California. In addition to serving as ad manager at the Sequoyah County Times, he sold advertising for the Anadarko (Oklahoma) Daily News and managed the Sand Springs (Oklahoma) Leader.
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.
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, 2024, surrounded by his family.
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 the age of 76 due to complications from a recent heart surgery, the AP reports. Anderson spoke at an NNA event not long after he was freed, according to NNA legal counsel Tonda Rush, former public policy director.
