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David P. Jenkins, a longtime attorney and judge who spent college summers working as a reporter for The (Appleton) Post-Crescent, died Sunday, Jan. 9, at his home in Middleton. He was 72.

In high school, Jenkins covered sports for the student newspaper and attended a summer journalism institute at Northwestern University. He studied political science and economics at UW-Madison, earning his bachelor's degree in 1971. While at UW, he served on the Board of Directors for The Daily Cardinal student newspaper. During his summers back home in Seymour, he worked as a reporter for The Post-Crescent in nearby Appleton.

Patricia Raab, who in the 1980s served as managing editor of the (Cedarburg) News Graphic Pilot, died Thursday, Jan. 6. She was 85.

After earning her journalism degree in 1958 from Marquette University, Raab started her journalism career as a columnist for the Peoria (Ill.) Heights Herald. In 1979, she joined the Port Washington Pilot as a reporter. Following a merger with the (Cedarburg) News Graphic, she went on to be named managing editor of the News Graphic Pilot until 1985, when she and her husband moved to Naperville, Ill.

After the couple returned to Ozaukee County in 1992, Raab spent time as night editor for The Milwaukee Journal before rejoining the News Graphic as a staff writer.

John David Adams II, a baptist minister-turned-journalist who was known for innovation and mentorship, died Thursday, Jan. 13, at his sister's home in Paloma, Ill. He was 46 and had been diagnosed in 2018 with stage 4 cancer.

After college, Adams worked for several years as a youth pastor before returning to school in 2008 and to earn his master's degree in journalism. In 2016, he was named deputy editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, where he worked until moving to Phoenix in 2018 to join The Arizona Republic. Prior to moving to Milwaukee, Adams worked at the Los Angeles Times, where he won a Pulitzer Prize as part of the newspaper's team that covered the 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif.

Mary Marik, a longtime contributor and former managing editor of the Washington Island Observer, died Monday, Dec. 27, at her home in Chicago. She was 76.

Mary and her husband, Warren, moved to Washington Island in 2008, and were involved for many years with the Observer. Following the 2012 sale of the newspaper to a group of 15 families, she was named managing editor and Warren served on the newspaper's board of directors.

She served in the role for a year before stepping down in 2013, but she continued to contribute to the newspaper and served on its board. The obituary credited her as being "instrumental in developing the Observer into the Wisconsin Newspaper Association and state-recognized official paper it is today."

Patricia "Pat" Kwallek, who served for many years as editor of the Grant County Herald Independent, died last month, the Lancaster newspaper reports. She was 88.

Kwallek started at the Grant County Independent in the 1950s, stayed on through the merger with the Grant County Herald and remained with the newspaper in various roles until her retirement in 1986. During more than 30 years with the Herald Independent, Kwallek served as a reporter, columnist, editor and photographer. She also was a correspondent for The Capital Times in the 1960s and 1970s, writing stories and shooting photos of Lancaster-area news for the Madison newspaper.

Paul Adams Rix, a former state government reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal, died Wednesday, Dec. 15, in Mequon. He was 74.

Rix spent his career as a newspaper and magazine reporter. He joined the State Journal in 1978 as a member of the newspaper's Capitol reporting team. Prior to his time with the Madison newspaper, he worked at the Clintonville Tribune and five years at the Kankakee (Ill.) Daily Journal.

Murray Cohen, who owned the Delphos Herald newspaper group that includes three Wisconsin newspapers, died Tuesday, Dec. 7. He was 92.

In 1962, Cohen purchased his first newspaper, The Delphos Herald, a weekly publication in northwestern Ohio. Over time, he went on to buy more than a dozen weekly newspapers in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. In Wisconsin, Cohen's group owns the Vilas County News-Review in Eagle River, the Waushara Argus in Wautoma and The Three Lakes News.

David M. “Dave” Otto, who spent more than 35 years as a reporter for the Green Bay Press-Gazette, died Friday, Nov. 26, in Green Bay. He was 83.

After earning his bachelor’s degree from Ripon College and a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University, Otto embarked on his newspaper career, joining the Press-Gazette in 1962. He was following in the footsteps of his father, Carl, a newspaperman who worked for the (Wisconsin Rapids) Daily Tribune for 46 years.

Dave started as a courthouse reporter at the Press-Gazette, later moving on to become an outdoors and environmental reporter. He received several state and national honors for his work at the newspaper and, after retiring in 1998, he continued to write his popular weekly column, “Plugs & Slugs.”