Bill and Jean Hesse, former owners of the Loyal Tribune, ran the newspaper for seven years in the 1960s.
William D. “Bill” Hesse was born Jan. 12, 1933, on a farm near Plummer, Minn., the youngest of ten children born to William J. and Elizabeth K. (Cunningham) Hesse.
A little over a year later, Jean Marie (McGuire) Hesse was born April 15, 1934, in Waseca, Minn., to George and Dorothy (Miller) McGuire.
On Oct. 29, 1960, Bill and Jean Hesse were married in Waseca, Minn.
They moved to Loyal, Wis., a year later when they bought a local community newspaper.
Beginning in November 1961, the couple ran the Loyal Tribune, as well as a commercial printing shop.
They sold the newspaper in 1968 to Robert and Florence Berglund, who also bought the Spencer Record and Greenwood Gleaner before combining the three newspapers into the Tribune-Record-Gleaner in June 1969.
Bill died Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016, in Appleton. He was 83.
Jean died Monday, June 3, 2019, in Appleton. She was 85.
