Retired lifetime member of NCRA Charlene E. Nicholas, RPR (Ret.), passed away on July 25. She as a court reporter for the Dayton, Ohio, Municipal Courts…
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Freida Sclafani Williams passed away on June 3, 2018 after a long battle with cancer. Freida was an accomplished court reporter, dancer, and philanthropist. One…
Freida Sclafani Williams died on June 3, 2018, after a long fight with cancer. Born on Aug. 10, 1944, in Deland, Fla., the only child…
Joseph T. Pudlo, age 86, passed away peacefully on May 12, 2018. He was a partner with former NCRA President Sally J. Cochran and Secretary-Treasurer…
The court reporting profession lost an icon last week: Allen Edelist, FAPR, RPR (Ret.), passed away on May 16, 2018, at the age of 67.…
Surrounded by loving family, Kahryn “Queenie” Nix Wolfe lost her brief but valiant fight with cholangiocarcinoma on March 1, 2018. Kahryn was born to James…
On May 12, The Enterprise reported that former NCRA member Betty Armstrong Dole passed away in Palo Alto, Calif. Dole was an official court reporter.…
Dorothy Nell Bayless, of Plano, Texas, passed away on March 2. She was an Oklahoma state court reporter in the Osage and Tulsa County Court…
NCRA member Brenda Jean Bertram, RMR, an official court reporter from Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., passed away on Feb. 23. Read more.
The Seguin Gazette posted an obituary Feb. 25 for Maurice David West, age 82 of Kingsbury, Texas. West was a retired official court reporter and…
The court reporting community lost one of their own on Jan. 15, 2018. Bettye King Menck of Shelbyville, Tennessee, was one of the last pen…
NCRA member Brenda L. Ray, RPR, a freelance court reporter from Apopka, Fla., passed away on Jan. 17. Formerly from Wauwatosa, Wis., Ray owned and…
The Hartford Courant reported on Jan. 16 that Allan Liljehult, West Hartford, Conn., a retired official court reporter and former member of NCRA, died Jan.…
Al Renneisen, who worked for18 years as a court reporter, died Jan. 7 in South Park, Wyo. Renneisen worked with Judge Terrence O’Brien, who is…
Cathleen M. “Cathi” (Annis) Burnham passed away unexpectedly at the age of 59 at her home in Warwick, R.I., on Dec. 24, 2017. Cathi was…
An obituary notice posted on the John Ireland Funeral Home website noted the passing of Maynard E. Peterson of Oklahoma City, Okla. Peterson reported for…
Past NCRA member Eleanor Ruth Hennessy Pinard Ross, of Westfield, Pa., passed away Sept. 4. Throughout her career, she worked for the Portland, Maine, bankruptcy…
John T. “Jack” Loynd, Sr., who was an associate member of the National Shorthand Reporters Association (which became the National Court Reporters Association) for many…
Barbara Lynn Schneiter Jackson, RPR, CRR (Ret.), Flagstaff, Ariz., passed away on June 18. Read more.
The Sun-Sentinel reported on June 17 that retired NCRA member Alan Roberts, FAPR, RPR, passed away in Boca Raton, Fla. Roberts was a past president…