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DANIEL, CLIFTON — an ex-AP newsman and former managing editor of The New York Times, died Feb. 21, 2000 in New York, NY. He was 87.

Daniel started on North Carolina newspapers in the 1930s and spent six years with the AP. He joined the Times in 1944 to cover World War II, then held a variety of posts.

In 1956, he became well known outside journalistic circles when he became the son-in-law of Harry S. Truman, marrying the only child of the former U.S. president.

After his 1964-to-1969 stint as managing editor, Daniel became an associate editor. From 1973 to 1976 he was chief of the paper's bureau in Washington. He retired in 1977.

Besides his wife, survivors include four sons.

DAVIDSON, CHRISEVA J. — worked 20 years in the AP treasurer's office in New York before finding her real love as receptionist for the Human Resources Department.

"She really loved that job," said her husband, Herbert, also an AP retiree. "She loved being with people and meeting people."

Chris retired Jan. 1, 1994. Her husband said stomach cancer was diagnosed earlier this year and she underwent two surgeries in a futile attempt to stop it. She died Aug. 2, 2002 and was buried at Calverton National Cemetery, Calverton, Long Island, N. Y. She was 74.

Her husband said Chris was born in Washington, D.C., Dec. 24, 1927 and the date was the reason her parents named her Chriseva — for Christmas Eve. She lived for a time in Detroit before going to New York about 1960 and joining the treasurer's office in 1967.

"I worked in Management Information Services," Herb Davidson said, "and we both were in an AP bowling league. That's where I met her. We were married 23 years." Herb retired three years ago. Other survivors include two sisters, Ruth Worrell, Silver Spring, MD., and Ernestine Montague of the Bronx, N.Y.


DAVIS, RIDLEY CRAIG JR. — a private family service was held in Florida for retired the Atlanta technician who died May 26, 2005, at home after an extended illness, his family said.

Craig Davis was 69, succumbing a few days before his May 31st birthday.

Ridley Craig Davis Jr., who went by his middle name, spent 47 years with the AP. He started in Nashville, Tenn., as what was then called an "office boy." He spent the bulk of his AP career in Georgia where he transferred to the Atlanta bureau as an automatic operator in 1970. He was promoted to technician in 1973 and retired in the year 2000, having spent three decades with AP Atlanta.

Davis served as vice president and president of the Communication Workers of America, Local 1314 (CWA) during his career.

His family was at his side when he died at his residence in Summerfield. His service was held at St. Theresa's Parish in Belleview, Fla., where he was a parishioner. Survivors include his wife, Emily Sanders Davis, and eight children.

DAY, MICHAEL — Former AP technical staffer Michael Day died Jan. 21, 2008, at Spring Hill Regional Hospital in Brooksville, Fla., due to multiple complications with emphysema, congestive heart problems and kidney failure, his family said. He was 58.

A Morristown, N.J., native, Day joined AP in 1981 in East Brunswick as a technician. He stayed with the news cooperative until he retired in 2006, working as a technician based in New Jersey in Newark, Trenton and, most recently, in Cranbury.

Day is survived by two sons, his mother and two grandchildren.

DAY (Jr.), SAMUEL H. — a former crusading journalist in Idaho, died Jan. 26, 2001 in Madison, WI, of a stroke. He was 74.

Day was editor of The Idaho Observer, a weekly in Boise, in the 1960s and 1970s. He also worked for the AP.

Day and the Observer stirred controversy and national and state awards for depth and quality of news coverage. The paper, which became The Intermountain Observer, was the center of political activism in Idaho in its time.

He later became managing editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in Chicago and The Progressive in Madison.

Survivors include his wife, three sons, brother and sister.

DEAR, BOB — It became one of the Wimbledon traditions.

Boris Becker rushes to the net on Centre Court, dives full length to take a volley and ... click.

The next day, Bob Dear's photo is on sports pages all around the world.

Dear, who died (Dec. 8, 2003) aged 69 after a stroke, was a talented allround photographer for The Associated Press who covered wars in Iran and Beirut, riots in Northern Ireland and famines in Ethiopia as well as Olympics, tennis, boxing and soccer.

Like the Duchess of Kent, Dear had his own seat at Wimbledon — only his was at court level close to the net.

From this spot, he captured some great action from the eras of Rod Laver to the Becker years in the 1980s. His other sporting love was boxing and he was at ringside for scores of world title fights from the 1960s to the '80s.

Dear was a promising young soccer player who was once on the books of Fulham while his cousin, Brian, was a professional for West Ham.

He joined the AP in September 1950 as a 16-year-old messenger.

After military service, he rejoined in '54 as assistant to the photo librarian but his sights were set on becoming a full time photographer.

"He went out freelancing at night doing film premieres, getting them out of focus at first," said Johnny Johnson, a retired AP Photo Editor who worked with Dear for 25 years. "But he soon got it right and he was pretty good at it eventually. I would say he was one of the best photographers in Fleet Street. He really had an eye for a picture.

"He was one of the old time Fleet Street photographers who liked to socialize and meet people. He was a genuine bloke with no nastiness."

Regularly commended for his work at Wimbledon, Dear won an award at the 1983 World Press Photo contest for his Beirut coverage, an Ilford award for his boxing and other awards from AP Managing Editors.

"He was one of the AP's great photographers in the London tradition of hard-hitting daily picture journalism," said Hal Buell, retired AP executive photo editor.

"I remember Bob as always smiling, always friendly and ready for the next assignment whenever or wherever it turned up."

Dear leaves a widow, Rosemary, who is financial controller at the AP's London bureau. He also had four children -- Jill, Simon, Kim and Sarah-Jane.

DE FONTAINE, EDWARD — a veteran newsman who was instrumental in putting The Associated Press' radio network on the air, died April 23, 2002 in Alexandria, Virginia after a long illness. He was 72.

De Fontaine helped launch AP Radio in 1974 as its first assistant managing editor. Four years later, he was promoted to managing editor in charge of the network's editorial operations. He left AP Radio in 1982 to join Voice of America, from which he retired in 1997 as director of broadcast operations.

AP Broadcast Services managing editor Brad Kalbfeld said De Fontaine created a network that "lived up to the exacting standards of accuracy and objectivity that have always been AP's hallmark."

During his career, De Fontaine worked on stories ranging from the coronation of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to the Munich Olympics to war in Middle East. He was part of a Group W Broadcasting team that won an Overseas Press Club Award for spot news reporting from abroad.

De Fontaine was born in Dubuque, Iowa. At age 15, he was hired to work part-time in engineering at KDTH-AM in Dubuque. By 18, he had become an announcer, and he became a full-time reporter in 1951.

Two years later, De Fontaine joined the Army and became a newsman with Armed Forces Network Europe. After his tour of duty he returned to Iowa, but a dispatch on the AP wire about the Soviet invasion of Hungary convinced him he was "in the wrong place," he said. He returned to Europe and AFN, where he rose to the position of managing editor for news.

In 1962, he joined Westinghouse Broadcasting in Berlin, and in 1969 he became foreign news editor in London. Several years later, another AP wire report again changed his life. He read that AP was starting a "news service in sound," and he knew AP Radio was "the right place for me," he said.

The radio newsroom he helped launch in 1974 now serves stations with regular news, sports and business broadcasts, a 24-hour all-news service and Internet-delivered audio news services for broadcasters and Web sites.

De Fontaine was recently hospitalized at George Washington University Hospital in Washington with congestive heart failure, said his friend Shelby Whitfield, AP Radio's first sports director. He was released to a rehabilitation center in Alexandria, Virginia, Saturday night, and died in his sleep Tuesday morning. De Fontaine had survived cancer, and for two years had been cared for by his daughter Stephanie.

Whitfield called De Fontaine "a great friend, a faithful colleague and a great broadcaster."

De Fontaine is survived by his daughters, Stephanie De Fontaine of Alexandria and Katherine De Fontaine of Berlin; and his ex-wife, Karin De Fontaine of Berlin.

DeGEORGE, JOSEPH T. — a longtime AP journalist in Missouri and Kansas, died April 25, 2001 in Riverside, Mo. He was 91.

DeGeorge began working for the AP in Kansas City in 1930. In 1935, he moved to the Jefferson City Capital News, where he was editor until 1940. He returned to AP in Kansas City in 1940, transferred to Wichita, Kan., two years later as correspondent and returned to Kansas City in 1944 as Kansas state editor, a position he held for 27 years. DeGeorge retired in 1974 as the day editor in Kansas City.

At DeGeorge's retirement, the late AP president and general manager Wes Gallagher commented on his long tenure as state editor, calling it "a tremendous credit to your agility and vitality."

He is survived by a son and a sister.

De FOREST, BENJAMIN B. — a longtime AP newsman whose work gave the world glimpses of the Attica prison uprising in upstate New York, Pennsylvania coal mining disasters and Buffalo, N.Y., blizzards, died in the Buffalo suburb of Cheektowaga May 5, 1998 (correct), after a four-year battle with cancer and pulmonary fibrosis. He was 74.

Born in Uniontown, Pa., de Forest attended the University of Pittsburgh and began his journalism career at his hometown newspaper, the Uniontown Morning Herald.

His 35-year career with AP began in 1953 in Harrisburg, Pa., before moving to Pittsburgh months later. He transferred in 1969 to the Buffalo bureau, where he remained until his retirement in 1988.

De Forest's writing was recognized by the AP Managing Editors association in 1972, when he received an honorable mention for his coverage of a girl assaulted and stranded in Rochester.

Besides his wife, Margaret, de Forest is survived by a son, a daughter, four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

DE LA GARZA, PAUL — a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times and a former Associated Press staff member, died Oct. 29, 2006, in Tampa, Fla., after he collapsed from chest pains. He was 44.

"This is a heartbreaking loss. He really went after stories because they would make a difference in the lives of good-hearted folks," said Paul Tash, the Times' editor, chairman and CEO. "He had so much to offer both as a father and husband and also as a reporter."

A native of Port Isabel, Texas, de la Garza was an AP intern in Houston during the summer of 1984, and began working in the Chicago bureau in 1985 after graduating from the University of Texas.

In 1987, he was named the AP's correspondent in Carbondale, Ill., where he stayed for two years. He also worked in the Newark, N.J., bureau.

He started at the Times in 1992. He covered police news, wrote a column and helped edit the Tampa section. He left the paper in 1994 for the Chicago Tribune, where he spent six years as a reporter and bureau chief for Mexico City. He returned to the Times in 2000, partly because he and his wife wanted a more stable environment for the two orphans they adopted in Mexico City. Monica is now 12, and Carlos is 11.

De LUCE, ALMA — 90, widow of Dan De Luce, a Pulitzer Prize winner and a deputy general manager of The Associated Press, of congestive heart failure August 5, 2002 at her home in San Diego.

De Luce spent much of World War II with her husband in Europe, sometimes filing human interest stories as an AP stringer. Dan De Luce won the Pulitzer Prize for his daring reporting on the strength of partisan resistance to the Nazis in Yugoslavia.

In the spring of 1941, while based in Athens, the couple escaped the German invasion by fleeing on a fishing boat to Turkey. They were later stationed in Tehran and Calcutta, before Alma De Luce returned to New York and took a secretarial job with the State Department.

In 1943 she rejoined her husband in Cairo, where they stayed briefly before moving to Moscow in 1944 and Paris in 1945 for the AP.

After the war, they moved to Jordan, where Dan De Luce covered the Israeli-Arab war, and then to Berlin and Frankfurt, Germany, where he served as chief of bureau.

They traveled together to North and South Vietnam in 1970-71. While her husband filed stories on the war, De Luce acted as an accredited free-lance photographer for the AP.

De LUCE, DANIEL — as a World War II correspondent for The Associated Press, Dan De Luce won a Pulitzer Prize for his daring reporting on the strength of partisan resistance to the Nazis in Yugoslavia. De Luce died Jan. 29, 2002, age 90, at Palomar Medical Center in Escondido of complications from a fall at his home in San Diego, according to his brother, Richard, of Palos Verdes Estates.

The retired AP reporter and executive, a native of Yuma, Ariz., had lived in the Rancho Bernardo area of San Diego with his wife, Alma, since 1980.

De Luce, whose coverage of World War II took him to North Africa, South Asia and throughout Europe, began his career as an office boy in the AP's San Francisco bureau in 1929. He later transferred to the Los Angeles bureau, where he worked until 1934, when he received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. De Luce then spent a year reporting for the now-defunct Los Angeles Examiner so he would have enough experience to rejoin AP as a reporter, which he did a year later, his brother said.

The AP sent him in the spring of 1939 to Budapest, Hungary, where he began reporting on the conflicts that led to World War II. Later that year, he covered Germany's invasion of Poland.

While covering the Italian and German invasion of Greece, he and Alma, a photographer, had to flee with other correspondents in a fishing boat to Turkey. His coverage also included the British retreat from Burma, the American campaigns in North Africa and Italy, and the war crime trials at Nuremberg.

In 1943, he ignored the warning of a British naval captain and traveled to war-torn Yugoslavia to get a firsthand look at partisans led by Marshal Tito, who went on to become the country's Communist leader. De Luce's four-part series gave readers the most extensive account to date on underground forces in the region and won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Years later, De Luce said the Pulitzer meant he could stop trying to prove himself.

"I could relax," he told an interviewer. "It's like some guy getting into a movie and it's a big, big success. Well, you know, he doesn't have to be a star anymore."

After the war, he reported from Jordan on the Arab-Israeli war of 1947-48, then returned to Europe to serve as bureau chief in Frankfurt, Germany. He returned to the United States in 1956 to work at AP headquarters in New York City and retired from the news cooperative, as a deputy general manager, in 1976.

Besides his wife and brother, De Luce is survived by a sister, Roberta Hartnack of Santa Barbara.

DELIDOW, HERMAN — who served as a chief of communications for 27 of his more than 45 years with The Associated Press, died December 5, 2004 in the Detroit area after suffering in recent years from various illnesses. He was 90.

Delidow advanced through the AP ranks from part-time copy boy while a high school student in Detroit in the early 1930s to COC in his hometown bureau.

``The Associated Press was his life,'' Delidow's son, Marvin, said Monday. ``He was so good at what he did mechanically that he could sit at a telephone with a schematic and diagnose problems throughout the state.''

Marvin Delidow, 71 and of Oak Park, said the AP was the only employer his father ever had.

After working for a few years as a part-time copy boy, Herman Delidow (pronounced Dah LEE doh), moved to the AP's Flint bureau as a printer operator. He returned to Detroit in 1934 in the same capacity, and later in the decade he took on the job of Teletype operator. Delidow became a mechanic in the Detroit bureau by 1940.

After 12 years that saw him work three political conventions (1944, 1948 and 1952), Delidow was named chief of communications in Little Rock, Ark., in 1952. He transferred to Milwaukee as COC in 1954, before returning to Detroit as COC in 1954. As COC he supervised technicians in the installation and maintenance of the AP's equipment in bureaus and at member sites.

He retired in 1979, capping a career in which the AP went from transmitting stories via Morse Code to using computer and satellite communications.

Delidow is survived by his son, Marvin, and three stepsons.

DILL, WILLIAM (Joe) — who was chief of four AP bureaus before becoming editor of The Forum newspaper in Fargo, N.D., died Dec. 2, 1998 after collapsing in his kitchen. He was 63.

Dill joined the AP as a newsman in 1961 in Chicago, and became the assistant bureau chief there in 1966. He worked for the AP for 20 years and was bureau chief in Baltimore, Nashville, Tenn., Charlotte, N.C., and Minneapolis before he became editor of The Forum in January 1981.

Among his career highlights were an exclusive interview with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. one month before King's assassination, and coverage of the trial of Richard Speck, accused of killing eight student nurses in Chicago in 1966. Dill was on the panel that picked Pulitzer Prize winners in 1985-86.

He was born in 1935 in Carmi, Ill., served in the U.S. Navy from 1953 to 1957 and graduated from Southern Illinois University in 1961.

He is survived by his wife, Marie, and four grown children.

DIMMICK, EDWARD —Dimmick, Editorial retiree, died July 25, 2004.


DONAS, THALIA — Retired AP Turkey administrator Thalia Donas has died. Donas spent 52 years with The Associated Press and was a mainstay of the Istanbul bureau until the day she retired in 1997 at the age of 86. She was 97 when she died July 8, 2008 in Athens, Greece.

Donas, a widow, mother and grandmother who spoke fluent Turkish, Greek, French and English, recalled in a 1986 AP Log article how the Istanbul bureau got started: “On Christmas Day, 1945, Edwin Greenwald and I hired a truck, engaged two hefty porters and drove to the U.S. Information Service to pick up equipment and furniture to open an AP office in Istanbul. The bureau was to remain the center for AP news coverage in Turkey until 1969 when key news operations were shifted to the capital at Ankara.”

Istanbul-based AP Regional Manager Zeynep Alemdar, says the family plans to return Donas' remains to Istanbul.

Read a tribute that Alemdar penned in 1997 when Donas retired.

A Legend in the AP
by Zeynep Alemdar

Since The Associated Press opened its first office in Istanbul, the Turkish operation saw many people become part of it in the years to follow. But, one woman who spent a Christmas day to furnish the office before it went into operation 50 years ago, to this day remained the mainstay of the AP operations in Turkey.

She is Thalia Donas, 86, AP's administrator director in Turkey. She still works on the same desk she brought in that Christmas day from the U.S. Information Service which sold the second-hand furniture to the AP then.

Donas, who is fluent in Turkish, Greek, French and English, at first also helped the news coverage. She recalls that the first important story came a year after the AP's Istanbul office opened. The Soviet Union scrapped the 20-year-old eastern provinces and a right to the joint defense of the Turkish straits.

"The staff worked day and night for three consecutive days and left the office only to rush stories to the post office half a kilometer away. There were no other transmission facilities at that time," she recounts.

The office then received the news report by Morse, translated it into Turkish, made mimeograph copies and delivered it by messenger every hour or so.

Donas still maintains an unmistakeable news sense and shares her news story ideas with the staff. No one can beat her flashing memory and energy.

Donas, a widow, mother and grandmother, uses what little spare time she has to play brigdge and likes to entertain her friends at her home in the Prince Island, where she grew up, in the summers.

She shares her memories with the AP's young generation. She recalls a 1955 visit by the then World Services Director Lloyd Stratton. "Anxious to please, I reserved the largest and most luxurious suite at the Park Hotel with a beautiful view of the Bosporus. The hotel management chose to place white flowers in the room, and as soon as Mr. Stratton entered he turned to me and asked sternly: "Madam Donas, why the bridal suite?"

Donas grew to be a legend in the Turkish press, too, and still remains the oldest active member of the Turkish fleet street.

She likes to repeat the joke she heard from a Turkish colleague about herself to a foreign journalist who took pride in seeing every touristic attraction center, from Topkapi Palace to the historical Covered Bazaar, in Istanbul: "If you have not met Madam Donas, you have seen nothing sir."

DONGIER, JACK — a sports broadcaster for 17 years, died of cancer Oct. 30, 1996. He was 73.

Jack joined AP Broadcast Services in 1979 and delivered daily sportscasts and sports features. His out-of-studio assignments included the Kentucky Derby, major-league baseball's All-Star Game, the U.S. Open Tennis Championship and three Olympics, including the Winter Games in Lake Placid, N.Y., when the gold-medal winning U.S. hockey team upset the heavily favored Russians in 1980.

Before joining the AP, Doniger was a sportscaster and reporter for NBC radio network where he used the on-air name Jake Doniger. He also spent several seasons on the radio and television broadcasting team of the National Hockey League's Washington Capitals.

Jack served in the Merchant Marines during World War II and participated in the Normandy invasion on D-Day.

He is survived by his wife, Betty; daughter, Joan, a newscaster in Washington, D.C.; and son Joe, the chief sports scores clerk for AP's Broadcast division.

DOROGOFF, DIANE — Human Resources administrative assistant since 1988, died July 3, 1996 of complications from kidney disease. She was 41.

Diane joined AP in New York in 1982 as a receptionist. She was promoted that year to confidential secretary in New York Sports and later became an administrative assistant there. She also worked in the New York General Office, the Presidents Office, Human Resources, Newsfeatures and Treasury.

She was a New York native and attended Queensboro Community College.

DUKE, PAUL — whose storytelling skills and journalistic evenhandedness set the tone for the venerable public television show "Washington Week in Review," has died of leukemia, his former employer WETA-TV said. He was 78.

Duke died July 18, 2005, at his home in Washington, D.C.

He was already a political news veteran -- having worked for The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal and NBC -- in 1974 when he began his two-decade stint as the show's moderator.

Now called "Washington Week," the Friday night program featuring journalists discussing the week's news is the Public Broadcasting Service's longest running news program.

In a recent essay in Television Quarterly, Duke dubbed it "the granddaddy of television's informal, conversational news discussion programs."

He also expressed his disdain for the direction news has taken, particularly cable channel talk shows. "More than ever, the cable landscape is populated with confrontational gabfests, zealous ideologues oozing with know-it-all righteousness about the latest controversies of the day," Duke wrote.

On WETA's Web site, current "Washington Week" host Gwen Ifill wrote that her predecessor "will always be the unseen panelist at the table."

Duke was "a natural born storyteller," said executive producer Dalton Delan. "He was an expert at knowing that a fact is of no use if it has not been communicated well."

Born in Richmond, Va., Duke delivered newscasts for a local radio station as a teenager.

After graduating from the University of Richmond in 1947, he covered sports for the AP. But he was soon reporting on the state's brewing civil rights issues, which took him to the AP's Washington bureau in 1957.

For The Wall Street Journal, he covered Capitol Hill from 1959 to 1963 as well as the 1960 presidential campaign. After a decade of congressional reporting for NBC, Duke joined public television in 1974.

During his time at "Washington Week," the show earned an Emmy and saw its average audience climb from 1.5 million to 4.6 million.

Duke briefly returned in 1999 to resume moderator duties after his successor was fired. One of his final public television projects was a 2000 documentary called "The Great Campaign of 1960."

Divorced once, Duke is survived by his wife of 20 years, Janet Wachter Duke, a son from his first marriage, a stepdaughter and a stepgrandchild.

DURICKA, JOHN — a keen-eyed photographer who helped open the doors for wider photo coverage on Capitol Hill during his 30-year career with The Associated Press, died Sept. 23, 1996, after a long struggle with cancer.

John, 58, who lived in Arlington, Va., served for the last decade as chairman of the congressional Standing Committee of Press Photographers, the organization representing the interests of still photographers covering Congress. He was first elected to membership on the committee in 1981 and with the exception of a single year, served as its chairman since 1985.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in California, John joined the AP in New York City in 1966 and transferred to Washington three years later.

"From Bobby Byrd to Newt Gingrich, John captured all the great figures of Congress,'' said Jon Wolman. "He illustrated the legislative process with pictures of leaders, lobbyists and hundreds of ordinary citizens who appeared in committee hearings.''

"John was dedicated to his work,'' said Bob Daugherty, assistant bureau chief for photography in Washington. "But he often said that he didn't consider his job work, since he loved what he did.''

"John Duricka was a professional's professional. His work was seen by millions who never knew his name,'' said Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont. "He was a friend to many, and he will be missed.''

"The Senate and all Americans lost a true professional yesterday," said Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi. "All who treasure our freedoms of the press and free expression will miss his outstanding contributions to that end. We in the Senate will miss a respected friend."

DYGARD, THOMAS — 65, Associated Press newsman and bureau chief for 39 years and a successful author of children's sports books, died Sept. 30, 1996 of a heart attack in Hazleton, Pa.

Dygard and his wife, Patty, were returning from a vacation in Nova Scotia to their home in Evansville, Ind., where he had retired three years ago after serving as AP bureau chief in Tokyo, Chicago, Indianapolis and Little Rock.

Dygard also was the author of 18 boys' sports novels. A new one, "Running Wild," was just published by William Morrow & Co., Inc.

Dygard, a graduate of the University of Arkansas, joined the AP in 1954 in Little Rock as an office assistant. He went on to become correspondent in Birmingham, Ala., news editor in New Orleans and chief of bureau in Little Rock before moving to Indianapolis in 1966, Chicago in 1971 and Tokyo in 1985.

"He was just a natural at the job of being an AP bureau chief," said President Lou Boccardi. "I'm not sure any AP executive was ever more surprised by a job offer than Tom was when I told him I wanted him to take over in Tokyo," he recalled. "But he brought to our work in Japan the same calm, effective ways that had served members at home so well."

John Powers, for 27 years managing editor of the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune, remembered Dygard as "a thorough professional in knowing how to cover the news." "He was cool under the pressure of fire," Powers said. "He never lost his grace."

Besides his wife, survivors include a daughter and a son.