-30-

John Phillipp Graf, who was the second-longest serving publisher of the Galesville Republican, died Friday, June 5, at his home in Galesville. He was 69.

A Golden Member of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, newspapering was Graf’s lifelong career. He worked in a variety of roles, including as a reporter, photographer, typesetter, proofreader, graphic designer, publisher and owner.

Donna Frake, a former reporter who covered the Oconomowoc area for more than two decades, died Friday, May 22, after a long battle with cancer. She was 65.

Frake predominantly wrote for the Oconomowoc Focus, a Lake Country Publications newspaper that later became a part of Lake Country Now.

Harold Ervin “Pete” Steinke Jr., who in the 1950s worked in the advertising department of the Fond du Lac Commonwealth Reporter, died Thursday, May 7, in Davenport, Iowa.

Dan Manoyan, who started his career at the Kenosha News and spent the final 17 years with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, died Monday, April 20. He was 69.

Jacob “Jake” Friede, who served as an outdoors reporter for the (Beaver Dam) Daily Citizen and The (Minocqua) Lakeland Times, died Sunday, April 19. He was 42.

Francis D. “Fritz” Van Duyse, a longtime sports broadcaster and journalist who started writing for the Door County Advocate at age 12, died Friday, April 17. He was 93.

Miriam Baumann, mother of UW journalism graduate and former journalist Herman Baumann, died Sunday, April 12. She was 93.

Henry Raymond de Fiebre, a Madison native and former journalist who worked for nearly two decades at Reiman Publications, died March 29. He was 70.

Longtime Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Eugene Kane, who spent nearly three decades with the newspaper, was found dead in his Milwaukee apartment Thursday, the Journal Sentinel reported. He was 63.

Francis “Frank” Ryan, who spent two decades covering the Wisconsin State Capitol for United Press International, died Friday, April 10, in Middleton. He was 84.