Nancy Mersereau, longtime editor of the Ozaukee Press and community volunteer, died Feb. 19, 2009, at age 75.
Mersereau grew up in Green Bay, was one of the first Green Bay Packers cheerleaders and graduated from high school there in 1951. After graduating in 1956 from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn., she taught English at Antigo High School and at schools in El Paso, Texas, and Pulaski.
Nancy married John Mersereau in Green Bay in 1958 and the couple moved to Port Washington in 1970.
A year later, the self-proclaimed “news junkie” and former English teacher was hired as a reporter for the Ozaukee Press, working her way up to managing editor, a job she retired from in 1999.
Her 28-year career at the Press was marked with her journalistic integrity and tireless work as a community servant. Mersereau was the first woman to serve as president of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association.
Mersereau was honored posthumously by the Ozaukee County Board with the county’s Exemplary Achievement Award, having been involved with community organizations such as United Way, Port Fish Day, Port Washington Historical Society and Friends of the Niederkorn Library. She is survived by two sons.
