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Diane Niemeyer, who worked for 32 years at the Daily Jefferson County Union in Fort Atkinson, dies Thursday, Jan. 31. She was 71.

Elizabeth “Liz” Wing, a New York native who worked as a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal in the 1950s, died Wednesday, Jan. 30. She was 87.

Jean Anderson, who worked for many years as a journalist in the Black River Falls area, died Wednesday, Jan. 23. She was 88. Anderson, a

Connie Mae Lessard, the former owner and publisher of the Four Seasons shopper in Hayward, died Jan. 28. She was 85.

Francis Martell, who once owned a weekly shopper in Menomonie, died Saturday, Jan. 19, at age 90.

Steve Ehle, a longtime Madison-area journalist who served as Stoughton Courier Hub editor, died Tuesday, Jan. 15, after a battle with pneumonia.

Lee Henschel served as the newspaper’s publisher, editor, reporter and business manager for more than 20 years — a run that lasted right up until his death.

After graduating from Gilman High School in 1948, Bonita Mrock worked in the area as a newspaper editor, a waitress and in a chiropractic office.

Robert Toerpe, who owned and managed the Washington Island Observer for 20 years, died Friday, Dec. 14, at age 85.

Jean Greenway, a Wisconsin native who in the 1980s served as a newspaper correspondent in southern Africa, died Tuesday, Nov. 27. She was 91.