Found this obituary on 10 April 2015, from the Cuba, NY, Patriot and Free Press, February 26-March 4, 2003:
Joan Dickenson, a former staff writer, Allegany County bureau chief and columnist for the Olean Times Herald, died Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2003, in Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, after a short illness.
While a writer for the Times Herald, Mrs. Dickenson also won third place in the 1998 Associated Press writing contest for an editorial column, and an award of excellence for news writing from Thomson Newspapers which owned the Times Herald at that point in 1991. Prior to joining the staff of the Times Herald in 1986, Mrs. Dickenson was a correspondent for the Courier Express in Buffalo, and then, after the Courier-Express folded in 1980, for the Buffalo News. She was a reporter for the Wellsville Daily Reporter from 1984 to 1986.
For the past four years, from 1998 until three weeks before her death, Mrs. Dickenson worked in the Alfred University Office of Communications, writing for the university's alumni publication and editing a weekly electronic newsletter to alumni.
Born September 24,1948, in Brocton [sic], Mass., Mrs. Dickenson was the youngest of three daughters born to the late Arthur and Edith Altmark Alexander. She graduated from Thayer Academy in Braintree, Mass., in1965, and went to Barnard College in New York for a year.
In addition to her husband and children, Mrs. Dickenson is survived by a stepson, Jon Dickenson of San Bernadino [sic], Calif.; a stepdaughter, Teresa Dickenson Lucero, also of San Bernadino [sic]; a sister, Carol Alexander Novak of Acton, Mass.; five nieces, Pam Novak Frumkin of Ma'aleh Adumim, Israel, Nancy Novak of Troutdale, Ore., Lauren Speeth of Burlingame, Calif., Sara Speeth Billingsly of Arlington, Mass., and Gwen Speeth of Cambridge, Mass.; and a nephew, David Novak of Mosier, Ore.
Another sister, Susan Alexander Speeth, was killed in 1975.
Funeral and memorial services were held on Tuesday (Feb.18, 2003) at 11am at Maple Lawn Cemetery in Bolivar. Mrs. Dickenson's former colleague and long time friend Mark Floegel will speak at the service.
Jeffy Burnett
Found this obituary on 10 April 2015, from the Cuba, NY, Patriot and Free Press, February 26-March 4, 2003:
Joan Dickenson, a former staff writer, Allegany County bureau chief and columnist for the Olean Times Herald, died Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2003, in Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, after a short illness.
While a writer for the Times Herald, Mrs. Dickenson also won third place in the 1998 Associated Press writing contest for an editorial column, and an award of excellence for news writing from Thomson Newspapers which owned the Times Herald at that point in 1991. Prior to joining the staff of the Times Herald in 1986, Mrs. Dickenson was a correspondent for the Courier Express in Buffalo, and then, after the Courier-Express folded in 1980, for the Buffalo News. She was a reporter for the Wellsville Daily Reporter from 1984 to 1986.
For the past four years, from 1998 until three weeks before her death, Mrs. Dickenson worked in the Alfred University Office of Communications, writing for the university's alumni publication and editing a weekly electronic newsletter to alumni.
Born September 24,1948, in Brocton [sic], Mass., Mrs. Dickenson was the youngest of three daughters born to the late Arthur and Edith Altmark Alexander. She graduated from Thayer Academy in Braintree, Mass., in1965, and went to Barnard College in New York for a year.
In addition to her husband and children, Mrs. Dickenson is survived by a stepson, Jon Dickenson of San Bernadino [sic], Calif.; a stepdaughter, Teresa Dickenson Lucero, also of San Bernadino [sic]; a sister, Carol Alexander Novak of Acton, Mass.; five nieces, Pam Novak Frumkin of Ma'aleh Adumim, Israel, Nancy Novak of Troutdale, Ore., Lauren Speeth of Burlingame, Calif., Sara Speeth Billingsly of Arlington, Mass., and Gwen Speeth of Cambridge, Mass.; and a nephew, David Novak of Mosier, Ore.
Another sister, Susan Alexander Speeth, was killed in 1975.
Funeral and memorial services were held on Tuesday (Feb.18, 2003) at 11am at Maple Lawn Cemetery in Bolivar. Mrs. Dickenson's former colleague and long time friend Mark Floegel will speak at the service.