On Dec. 24, the Las Vegas Review posted an article announcing the passing of NCRA member Eric Nelson, RMR, CRR, a freelance reporter from Reno.…
Posts published in “In Memoriam”
With Ray DeSimone’s passing, I have lost a dear friend personally, and the loss is also to the court reporting profession at large. When I…
The GazetteXtra reported on Nov. 11 that retired NCRA member Robert E. Harrington, RPR, passed away Nov. 9 in Elkhorn, Wis. Harrington worked as an…
Robert J. “Jim” Hartnett, resident of Oak Park, Ill., formerly of Western Springs, and owner of Hartnett & Catellani, a court reporting firm in Chicago,…
On Sept. 23, 6-9 p.m., court reporters are invited to share memories and photos through Facebook to remember James (Jim) Woitalla, RDR, CRI. The online…
JoEllen Dicken of Haymarket, Va., unexpectedly passed away on Sept. 7. Dicken was the Director of the U.S. Senate Captioning Office for several years. Prior…
James A. Woitalla, RDR, CRI, of Minnetonka, Minn., passed away on Aug. 12. He was 58. A principal in Herbert L. Peterson & Associates as…
Our dear friend and colleague Carole A. Bartkowicz of Elmwood Park, Ill., passed away on July 18, 2016, after a yearlong battle with cancer. Carole…
NCRA mourns the loss of three members: Carole Bartkowicz, RPR, CMRS, a freelance court reporter from Elmwood Park, Ill.; Kelly Ann Powers, RMR, an official…
Kelly Ann Powers, RMR, was born December 9, 1958, and died unexpectedly of a heart attack on July 18, 2016. Kelly was a graduate of…
NCRA member Carole Bartkowicz, RPR, CMRS, passed away July 18 after a long battle with cancer. Bartkowicz, a freelance court reporter from Elmwood Park, Ill.,…
NCRA member Kelly Ann Powers, 57, an official court reporter from Kaukauna, Wis., passed away unexpectedly on July 18. Powers served as an NCRF Trustee…
On July 11, 2016, retired freelance reporter and NCRA member Stuart Myles Simen, RPR, FAPR, passed away in Los Angeles, Calif., after a long battle…
Stuart Simen, who oftentimes was seen as cantankerous, ornery, and cane-waving, is remembered by those near and dear to him as a down-to-earth, caring man…
On July 5, Jeffrey McCauley Cheyne, husband of NCRF Trustee Debra Cheyne, a CART captioner from Sherwood, Ore., passed away. Earlier this year, he and…
The State reported on April 14 that NCRA member Jane Garnet LaPorte, of Columbia, S.C., passed away on April 12. LaPorte, who was 64, was…
Nathaniel Weiss, a polymathic court reporter in the New York City courts for 70 years, passed away on Dec. 21, 2015, at the age of…
Michael Turner, cofounder of Freedom Court Reporting in Birmingham, Ala., passed away on April 8. He was 62 years old. Read more.
Lucille Marie Litsheim, RPR, CRR (Ret.), a retired federal court reporter from Las Vegas, Nev., passed away Feb. 23. Litsheim was 83 years old. Read…
Please join me in remembering Alan Agren, RPR, CMRS, and celebrating his life. Alan began his esteemed court reporting career after graduating from East High…