Dorothy (Browne) Haines, 98, of Madison, died on April 22.
Born on Jan. 3, 1922, in Twin Falls, Idaho, to Marshall F. and Vera Browne, she graduated in 1939 from Madison East High School before going on to attend UW-Madison, where she earned a degree in journalism and became the first female editor of The Daily Cardinal student newspaper.
In 1943, she married Leonard Haines and moved to Whitewater. The couple went on to have two children before he died in 1953. Following her husband’s death, she and her sons returned to Madison and she went to work for her father’s East Side Print Shop, which also published the “East Side News,” of which she served as editor. She would go on to become vice president of the business.
Her love of history and journalism culminated with the writing of “Monona in the Making,” published in 1999, for which she was awarded the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Local History Award of Merit.
