Dorothy (Browne) Haines, 98, of Madison, died on April 22. 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.

She later 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.

Longtime Sheboygan Press community editor Mary Louise Eckardt, 74, of Eau Claire, died on May 12.

After graduating from North High School in Sheboygan, where she served as editor of the school's yearbook, she went on to earn a degree in journalism from UW-Madison in 1972, before joining the Merrill Daily Herald as a reporter. From there, she worked at the (Rochester, Minn.) Post-Bulletin and, by 1976, she'd returned to her hometown to work at the Sheboygan Press as community editor — a role she held for the next 30 years.