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…
Posts published in “In Memoriam”
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…
Vincent “Vince” Varallo, Jr., a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from PCRA upon his retirement, passed away on Sept. 8, 2015. Vince’s father, Vincent,…
Peter Jepsen, a giant in the closed captioning industry, passed away on December 27, 2015, in Fairmont, Minn. Jepsen began his career as a court…
Patricia L. Getty, co-owner of Getty & Associates Court Reporting, Ltd., a decades-old court reporting agency in Chicago, Ill.; proofreader extraordinaire; office helper in any…
What do you say when you hear of a colleague and friend passing on at the ripe age of 95 who had stalwart qualities and…
William S. Greenley, 70, passed away on Oct. 30 as a result of a heart attack. A memorial was held on Nov. 8 in Petaluma,…
William Price Banister, longtime owner of Salomon Reporting in Baltimore, Md., died on Oct. 30 at his retirement home in Jacksonville, Fla. Banister was 99…
NCRA has learned that Frank Nelson, FAPR, RPR (Ret.), recently passed away. A couple of his friends in court reporting have shared their memories of…
James P. Dolan, 83, a native of Chicago, passed away after a long illness on Oct. 23. Dolan served for many years as an official…
The Salina Journal reported on Oct. 14 that Donna Lauree Hansen, a former NCRA member and faculty member at Brown Mackie College, passed away on…
Franklin Delano Cross of Dallas, Texas, passed away September 19 at the age of 82. He was born January 31, 1933, to Ross Cross and…
Clarence J. Getty, uncle and mentor of federal official court reporter Krista Flynn Burgeson, passed away September 20, 2015. Getty was a freelance court reporter…
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.…