An Aug. 20 obituary in the Houston Chronicle announced that Robert “Bobby” Dean Carr, a court reporter and former NCRA member, passed away on Aug.…
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Madison.com reported on May 2 that Larry M. Ewing, age 76, a court stenographer for the state of Wisconsin, passed away on April 18. Ewing,…
I’ve been reporting over 43 years, and three developments in the reporting profession have profoundly changed the way I perform my work: Computer-aided transcription, the…
Leonard W. Ehlers, a retired official court reporter of the 36th Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri, passed away on March 27 in Columbia,…
Wesley Vincent Gales, 84, of Sturgeon Bay, passed away on April 19 with family at his side. He was born August 26, 1930, in Milwaukee,…
Taylor Reese, at the age of 92, passed away peacefully on March 27. Taylor was born and raised on a farm in Eastern North Carolina.…
Richard “Dick” Schmidt passed away on April 10, losing a short and courageous battle with cancer. Dick was an official court reporter for Winnebago County…
William “Bill” Shimeta, FAPR, died April 7 at the age of 91. A retired member of NCRA, Shimeta was a court reporter for 58, serving…
NCRA Past President Leonard W. Ehlers, formerly of Poplar Bluff, Mo., and retired official court reporter of the 36th Judicial Circuit of the State of…
The court reporting world lost an icon on Nov. 13, 2014, when Jim Bouley passed away at the age of 80. Thousands of us cut…
David B. Harley, Lawrence, Kan., died peacefully on Feb. 9, 2015, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was a retired court reporter for District Court of…
A tribute to Jim Maxwell, a court reporter who passed away on Oct. 18, at 80 years of age was posted on mySouTex.com on Dec…
Jim Bouley, RDR (Ret.), born on February 9, 1934, in Dayton, Minn., passed away on Nov. 13, after a long and fruitful life. Jim filled…
William Lee “Bill” Odom passed away Oct. 18 in Flagstaff, Ariz. A memorial service was held Nov. 3 at Chapelwood Funeral Home, Texarkana, Texas. Odom…
David “Randy” Jordan passed peacefully on Oct. 7, 2014, after a long battle with cancer. He was born on August 17, 1945, in Exeter, N.H.…
The Seacoastonline.com posted the obituary of David “Randy” Jordan, 60, of Eliot, Maine, on Oct. 12. Jordan, who founded the freelance court reporting firm of…
NCRA Past President Judy Brentano, RPR (Ret.), of Punta Gorda, Fla., passed away on Sept. 18. Brentano served as president of NCRA from 1992 to…
The Mason City Globe Gazette reported on Sept. 4 the passing of NCRA member Holly Sue Houser Simons, RMR, CRR,50, of Hampton, Iowa. She passed…
The July 12 Washington Post reported the death of William Mohr, who was an official reporter of debates of the U.S. Senate for 23 years.…
My father, Nicholas J. Cinciotta, spent his career as a shorthand reporter. He died on Jan. 19, 2014, eleven weeks shy of his 100th birthday.…