Hoosier State Press Association - The Indiana Publisher
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Page 2 October 8, 2015 Former newspaper owner spent 50 years in industry Community volunteer active with KPC Media business A nn Allen, 80, who spent more than five decades in the newspaper busi- ness, died Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015, of natu- ral causes in her Akron, Indiana, home. For 26 years she wrote the Fleeting Moments weekly column in The Rochester Sentinel. She also kept Sentinel readers aware of Akron news. She began her writing career in 1962 when she and her former husband Loren Sheetz purchased the Akron News. They purchased the Mentone News in 1964, merged the two into the Akron Mentone News and eventually sold that publication in 1977. She was honored with the Indiana Historical Society's Jacob Platt Dunn Jr. Award in 2008 for an article that was published in Traces of Indiana magazine. She and her late husband Bob Allen were named Akron 4th of July parade grand mar- shals in 2000. Allen was writing a book about the town's history. She has already written four others, two based on her early columns in The Akron Mentone News, one about the history of Pike Lumber Co. and another about the history of Akron United Methodist Church. Ann was a freelance writer, and The Sentinel wasn't her only gig. She frequently con- tributed to Farm World News, edited by former Sentinel writer Dave Blower. Her writing also was pub- lished in such publications as Guideposts, Grit, Today's Christian Woman and others. Over the past couple years Allen also shared her talent for writing with the greater community, teaching skills to the Akron Area Writers Group. Her awards included the highest honor given by the Women's Press Club of Indiana in 2011, the Communicator of Achieve ment. She was a longtime member of the club. In 2011 she also was named the Honeycomb Award winner for the most points garnered in the club's annual writing contest. She was 2004 president of that club and in 2011 was given the President's Award for researching and writing the club history in anticipa- tion of its centennial. In addition to her women's press club awards, she also was honored by the Hoosier State Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Federation of Press Women. She enjoyed traveling and sometimes took her pen and notebook. She was once kicked off a collective farm in Belarus and was the only American at a press confer- ence with the Grand Duke of Luxenbourg and the visiting Prime Minister of Denmark in a castle at Luxembourg. Allen graduated from Akron High School in 1952 and stud- ied at Manchester College and Indiana University. The daughter of Margaret and Leon Kindig, she grew up on a farm south of Akron. Allen has two sons, four step- children and many grandchil- dren and great-grandchildren. – The Rochester Sentinel D orothy Lee Booth Witwer died Monday, Sept. 21, 2015, at Key West Health and Rehabilitation in Florida. She was active in the fam- ily business, KPC Media Group Inc., in Kendallville, Indiana. She was born Nov. 23, 1931, to Waller Beall Booth and Dorothy Taylor Booth in Philadelphia. Following a childhood in Philadelphia; London, England; Coral Gables, Florida; and Puerto Rico, she attended Abbot (now Andover) Academy and Smith College, both in Massachusetts. In Florida, before departing for Abbot, she won a state- wide history award. On Oct. 12, 1951, she mar- ried George Osburn Witwer of South Bend, Indiana. They lived in Connecticut, New York City, Kendallville, Indiana; and Key West, Florida. She and George moved to Kendallville in 1962. There, she was active in the Christian Science Society, Girl Scouts, East Noble AFS (an international exchange organization), Tri Kappa, community concerts, literacy and community projects. She was a big sister with Big Brothers Big Sisters. In 1989 she and George made Key West their sec- ond home. There she was a board member and officer of Reef Relief, an organization focused on saving coral reefs through research, educa- tion and political action. In addition, she was active in Samuel's House, a nonprofit organization for homeless and/or battered women and children, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Christian Science Church and community events. She was co-editor of an extensive Smith College Class of 1952 50th reunion book. She loved travel, needle- work, speaking Spanish, reading and learning new things. She is survived by her hus- band, four children and their spouses: Terry and Grace Housholder of Kendallville; Richard and Sally Stolz of Rockville, Maryland; Phil and Violette Wysong of Wawaka, Indiana; and George Booth Witwer and his wife Dianne of Bluffton, Indiana; 14 grandchildren, and five great- granddaughters. Also surviving is her sis- ter, Sally Booth Lilley of Washington, D.C. – News-Sun (Kendallville) Ann Allen Dorothy Witwer HSPA staff Steve Key, executive director and general counsel skey@hspa.com • (317) 624-4427 Karen T. Braeckel, HSPA Foundation director kbraeckel @hspa.com • (317) 624-4426 Pamela Lego, MAP advertising director plego@hspa.com • (812) 350-7711 Milissa Tuley, communications specialist mtuley@hspa.com • (317) 624-4430 Yvonne Yeadon, office manager yyeadon@hspa.com • (317) 624-4433 Shawn Goldsby, advertising coordinator sgoldsby@hspa.com • (317) 803-4772 The Indiana Publisher is published monthly by Hoosier State Press Association, 41 E. 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