Max Heath, one of the newspaper industry’s leading postal experts for decades, died Wednesday, July 28, in Louisville, Ky., the National Newspaper Association announced. He was 75 and had suffered a hemorrhagic stroke days earlier.

Heath, a longtime postal guru for NNA, was postal chair emeritus for the association and remained a consultant to the NNA Postal Committee. As a top postal expert, Heath advocated to preserve affordable mail delivery options for community newspapers and was a valuable resource for newspaper publishers in Wisconsin and across the country. In 2019, he was awarded the Wisconsin Newspaper Association's first-ever Distinguished Service Award for Contributions to Wisconsin Newspapers.

Therese "Terri" Lescelius, who was the first female editor of the Marinette Eagle-Star and led the EagleHerald newsroom for nearly two decades, died Wednesday, July 21. She was 68.

In 1973, after attending Central Michigan University, she joined the newsroom of the Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe, where she met her future husband, Paul. In 1982, Lescelius joined the Marinette Eagle-Star newsroom, where she later became the paper’s first female editor. In 1987, she was named editor and general manager of the Menominee Herald-Leader, another Bliss Communications newspaper. When the two newspapers merged in 1995, she remained as editor — a role she held until her retirement in 2012.

George Franklin “Buddy” Sanders, who worked as a graphic journalist for The Milwaukee Star, died Friday, July 16. He was 90.

Sanders joined the newspaper, which touted itself as “The Voice of the Negro in Wisconsin,” in 1962. He worked several years for the newspaper as a graphic designer, occasionally contributing as a writer. Among his more notable work for newspaper was his design for front-page coverage of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963. Sanders also taught at the Freedom Schools and worked for school desegregation.