In this May 4, 2013 photo provided by Claudia Counts, former Associated Press photo editor Madge Stager poses for a photo along Sixth Avenue, in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York. Stager, 61, who retired in 2009 after 37 years with The AP, died at at a New York hospital on Saturday, April 4, 2015, after a brief illness. As a New York-based photo editor, Stager was a familiar, straight-talking voice to journalists around the world, assisting them in chronicling such stories as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, numerous Olympic Games and the Sept. 11 terror attacks. (AP Photo/Claudia Counts)