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Obituaries: E EASTERLY, CLAUD — a retired newspaper editor and the father of David Easterly, who is on the AP board of directors, died March 16, 1999 in Denison, TX. He was 91. During his 47 years as a journalist, he interviewed numerous public figures, including five U.S. presidents, bandleader John Philip Sousa, magician Harry Houdini and heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis. His son, David, is president and CEO of Cox Enterprises, the Atlanta-based media company that owns and operates more than a dozen newspapers, about a dozen TV stations and more than 50 radio stations. Other survivors include his wife, Ophelia, a stepson, a stepdaughter and a brother. EASTERLY, EDGAR E. JR. — an AP newsman for 30 years who covered the Texas congressional delegation, died Sept. 1, 1998 in Alexandria, Va. He was 91. Easley came to Washington in 1937, writing news of interest to Texas newspapers. He also wrote two weekly columns, one on the oil industry and the other called "Texans in Washington.'' From 1967 until his retirement in 1978, Easley worked on Capitol Hill, handling public and press relations for the House Agriculture Committee. Survivors include his wife, a son and a daughter. EASLEY, L.T. "TEX'' — an AP newsman for 30 years who covered the Texas congressional delegation, died Sept. 1, 1998 in Alexandria, Va. He was 91. Easley came to Washington in 1937, writing news of interest to Texas newspapers. He also wrote two weekly columns, one on the oil industry and the other called "Texans in Washington.'' From 1967 until his retirement in 1978, Easley worked on Capitol Hill, handling public and press relations for the House Agriculture Committee. Survivors include his wife, a son and a daughter. |
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EBERLINE (Sr.), WILLIAM — a retired AP Iowa reporter, died May 30, 1999 at age 79, in Hebron, NB, of cancer. Eberline joined the AP in Des Moines in 1946 and worked in that bureau until he retired in 1985. Survivors include a son, two daughters and two sisters. EDLAM, RITA — who spent nearly a decade with The Associated Press as a telephone operator/receptionist, died May 5, 2005, in a New York City hospital. She was 63. She had been on a leave from her position in Administrative Services at New York headquarters since January.
She was born Rita Mae Edlam in St. Croix, the Virgin Islands, in 1942. She graduated from high school in Manhattan and earned an associate degree from the Borough of Manhattan Community College.
Not long after graduating from Manhattan Community College, Edlam went to work for Alitalia Airlines and spent nearly two decades in the airline's New York office before leaving as a telephone sales representative. She worked briefly as a home health aide before joining the AP as a switchboard receptionist in the Rockefeller Center headquarters in June 1995. She was part of AP's move to its new headquarters in 2004. EDLIN, JOHN — former AP correspondent who covered Africa for four decades and opened the AP's first bureau in Rhodesia, died Jan. 30, 1996, following a stroke. Edlin, 50, was receiving treatment in Johannesburg after collapsing in Dakar, Senegal. He had worked in Senegal for the last year, training journalists with the Pan African News Agency under a program sponsored by the Washington-based Center for Foreign Journalists and the U.S. Knight Foundation. A native of New Zealand, Edlin moved to Africa in 1963, working for the Rhodesia Herald and Bulawayo Chronicle in what was then called Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. He covered west Africa for the South African-owned Africa News Service and reported on the anti-colonial and civil wars in Angola and Mozambique for AP, Reuters and British newspapers before becoming a full-time AP correspondent in 1976. He retired from AP in 1993. EVANS, ROWLAND — a syndicated columnist, longtime CNN host and ex-AP newsman, died March 23, 2001 in Washington, D.C., of cancer. He was 79. Evans and partner Robert Novak were hosts of the CNN political interview show "Evans & Novak" for nearly 20 years. Evans got his first job as a reporter with the Philadelphia Bulletin. He later covered Washington and the Senate for the AP for 10 years and worked for the New York Herald Tribune and Reader's Digest. The Evans-Novak relationship began in 1963 with a joint political column entitled "Inside Report." At its peak, the column appeared in 300 newspapers. Evans retired from the column in 1993 but continued to write occasionally. Survivors include his wife, son and daughter. |
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