Jean Morgan, who took a job as a business reporter of the Daytona Beach News-Journal in Florida when she was 65, died Friday in Michigan at the age of 85.
Andrew Gant of the News-Journal writes, “Morgan, the knowledgeable ‘newsroom dictionary’ who brought flowers into the office each week, died Friday in Waterford, Mich., where she raised her family. She was 85.
“‘She was atrouper,’ said Sandra Frederick, managing editor of the Citrus County Chronicle and the News-Journal’s New Smyrna Beach bureau chief during Morgan’s tenure. ‘No matter what you gave her, she was out there covering it for you.’
“Morgan moved to Florida in 1973 with her husband, Rick, and lived in Daytona Beach, New Smyrna Beach and Edgewater.
“‘No matter where you went, everyone knew Jean Morgan,’ Frederick said.”
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