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…
Posts published in “In Memoriam”
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.…
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…