Joann Schrauth, an accomplished writer and photographer for The (Fond Du Lac) Reporter since 1979, died on Tuesday, Jan. 16, in Fond du Lac. She was 82.
Born on Aug. 12, 1941, to Raymond and Hazel Wettstein, she married Hilary Schrauth in 1960 and the couple farmed in the town of Ashford.
She began freelance writing in 1971 and joined The Reporter in 1979. Her work included covering local village board and school board meetings, as well as her own personal stories of miscarriages and loss. She was known for having a true sense of journalism and taught her children about bylines, shorthand, punctuation, proper use of quotation marks and Robert’s Rules of Order. She received awards for her work from the WNA’s Better Newspaper Contest.
