Ray Carlsen, who worked for the last 23 years of his journalism career as executive director of the Inland Press Assocation, died June 8, 2025 at Johnson Health Care Center at Windsor Park in Carol Stream, Ill.
A lifelong newspaper man, Carlsen began his career at the Wheaton College Record, continuing while he was a Second Lieutenant in the Army as the assistant information officer and editor of The Fort Lee Traveler; followed by Carlsen and his wife, Blaze, owning and operating multiple weekly newspapers in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The last 23 years of his journalism career were spent as Executive Director of Inland Press Association in suburban Chicago.
Funeral services will be held on June 18, 2025, at 10 a.m. at Christ Presbyterian Church Roselle (aka Spring Valley), 903 East Nerge Road, Roselle, Ill., followed by interment with military honors at Wheaton Cemetery, 1209 Warrenville Rd., Wheaton, Ill.
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