Ardis Bloom Swenson, former publisher of The Stanley Republican, died on Jan. 27. She was 95.

Ardis and her late husband, Ralph, moved frequently as he grew his newspaper business. In 1960, they purchased The Stanley Republican, where they worked together until 1964, when Ralph died at the age of 39. Following his death, Ardis became publisher and editor of the newspaper, and wrote a column "The Melting Pot." She sold the newspaper in August 1968 to Joseph Frazedin of Fulda, Minnesota.

Former reporter Jean A. Vanden Branden died on Feb. 14 at the age of 94.

A native of Green Bay, she was born on Sept. 21, 1928, to Helena (Denissen) and Charles Katers. She graduated in 1946 from St. Joseph’s Academy in Green Bay. Later, she obtained her broker’s license in real estate and worked as a reporter for the Catholic monthly newspaper, The Compass. 

Richard Craig Heine, 73, of Delavan, died on Monday, Jan. 30, at Vintage on the Ponds in Delavan. A native of New London, Heine became a small-town newspaper reporter and photographer before transitioning to corporate communications at Rexnord Corporation. He later moved onto a role in employee communications and promotions at the Milwaukee Journal.

Joyce Pattee, a former sales employee for The (Fond du Lac) Reporter, died on Thursday, Feb. 9, at Prairie Ridge in Waupun at the age of 90.

Pattee was born on May 16, 1932, in Fond du Lac, to Warren and Frances Bentley Balson. She was a graduate of Goodrich High School in Fond du Lac. Following graduation, she was employed in the advertising department of The Reporter.