Richard “Dick” Whaley Timmons, longtime editor and publisher of The Rhinelander Daily News, was born in South Orange, N.J.
Dick spent more than 46 years in the newspaper business, a career that spanned New England and landed him in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, running the Daily News from 1979 to 1998. Dick also was on the national advertising staff of The Christian Science Monitor in New York City in the early 1970s. He took great pride in his connections to the New England and Wisconsin Newspaper Associations.
A Rhinelander resident with his wife, Susan, for nearly 35 years, Dick’s love for his city and the Northwoods knew no bounds. He retired from the newspaper in 1998 and leaned headfirst into community life, including his second career as an on-air host for Midday Classics, a weekly music program on Rhinelander’s Wisconsin Public Radio station.
Dick died July 20, 2014, at 84. He and his wife, Susan, had four sons and seven grandchildren.
