Former Wisconsin journalist Debra Claxton, 70, died on Sunday, February 18, in Greeley, Colorado.
Born April 22, 1953, to Robert and Barbara Willson in Manchester, Iowa, she graduated from high school in 1971 and attended Worthington State Junior College. She earned a bachelor’s degree in mass communications in 1975 from Mankato State University, where she worked on the school newspaper The Reporter.
She moved to Pepin, Wisconsin, in 1994 and began working for the Courier-Wedge in 1997 — first as a reporter and then the editor.
