Portsmouth Daily Times
Portsmouth, Ohio
Monday, 6 June 1988
L.W. "BILL" BURNS, 84,
RETIRED NEWSMAN, DIES
Louis William "Bill" Burns, an officer of the Scioto County Fair Board for many years, died Sunday at Hill View Health Care Facility. He had retired after 50 years as labor industry editor for The Portsmouth Daily Times. He was 84.
A native of Portsmouth, he resided at Hill View Retirement Center for several years but continued his interests in the community and in the operation of the county fair. He was a director, secretary-treasurer and manager of the Scioto County Agriculture Society, sponsor of the county fair.
He also was a director and past president of the Ohio Fair Managers Association and past chairman of the Ohio Expositions Commission, which sponsors the Ohio State Fair.
A 32nd degree Mason, he was past president of the Scioto County Scottish Rite Club and past president of Portsmouth Shrine Club. He was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church and a member of the Ohio State Fair Hall of Fame.
Widely known as an expert reporter, Burns covered major fires and natural disasters, business and industrial developments, and government and political events in the Portsmouth area for years. Among the biggest stories were the 1937 flood, and the 1968 tornado which struck the Wheelersburg area.
He recalled starting to work at the age of 13 when he delivered newspapers in snow on a cold Sunday morning for a friend who became ill. The Times circulation manager at the time rewarded him with a regular Hilltop paper route. During high school days, he worked in The Times mail room and later was foreman of the Morning Sun mail room before accepting a reporting job on The Sun in 1927. When Brush Moore Newspapers, purchaser of the local papers, discontinued The Sun in 1930, Bill went to work in the Times newsroom.
He recalled as a schoolboy seeing U.S. President William Howard Taft when he visited Portsmouth in 1912 and President Warren G. Harding in 1920 in the 1932 campaign. Bill boarded a Norfolk & Western Railway train in Ironton and interviewed President Herbert Hoover en route to Portsmouth.
In later years, he interviewed Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon as well as presidential candidates including Alf Landon, former governor of Kansas, in 1936, Wendell Willkie, U.S. Sen. Robert Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Jerry Ford and John Kennedy. He met President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan.
He was an early supporter of aviation active in reporting aviation news and a member of the Scioto County Airport Advisory Commission which supervised construction of the airport at Minford, serving as secretary of the commission.
He was instrumental in Ohio Gov. James A Rhodes' decision to build the Southern Ohio Correction Facility at Lucasville and received many commendations from officials of the Atomic Energy Commission, federal agencies and the Associated Press for coverage of the atomic energy plant near Piketon. He covered the steel and shoe manufacturing industries through the years in Portsmouth.
Burns was preceded in death by his wife, the former Dorothy Dunn, in October 1978.
Surviving are three brothers, Lowell E. Burns and Walter H. Burns of Portsmouth, and Robert H. Burns of St. Louis; four sisters, Catherine Brandel and Esther Tutwiler of Winona Lake, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Cochran and Helen Mathews of Portsmouth; and several nieces and nephews.
Service is Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Daehler Fuenral Home, with the Rev. Thomas Hoffman officiating and burial in Greenlawn Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday from 6 to 9 p.m. with Masonic rites planned at 8 p.m.
Portsmouth, Ohio
Monday, 6 June 1988
L.W. "BILL" BURNS, 84,
RETIRED NEWSMAN, DIES
Louis William "Bill" Burns, an officer of the Scioto County Fair Board for many years, died Sunday at Hill View Health Care Facility. He had retired after 50 years as labor industry editor for The Portsmouth Daily Times. He was 84.
A native of Portsmouth, he resided at Hill View Retirement Center for several years but continued his interests in the community and in the operation of the county fair. He was a director, secretary-treasurer and manager of the Scioto County Agriculture Society, sponsor of the county fair.
He also was a director and past president of the Ohio Fair Managers Association and past chairman of the Ohio Expositions Commission, which sponsors the Ohio State Fair.
A 32nd degree Mason, he was past president of the Scioto County Scottish Rite Club and past president of Portsmouth Shrine Club. He was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church and a member of the Ohio State Fair Hall of Fame.
Widely known as an expert reporter, Burns covered major fires and natural disasters, business and industrial developments, and government and political events in the Portsmouth area for years. Among the biggest stories were the 1937 flood, and the 1968 tornado which struck the Wheelersburg area.
He recalled starting to work at the age of 13 when he delivered newspapers in snow on a cold Sunday morning for a friend who became ill. The Times circulation manager at the time rewarded him with a regular Hilltop paper route. During high school days, he worked in The Times mail room and later was foreman of the Morning Sun mail room before accepting a reporting job on The Sun in 1927. When Brush Moore Newspapers, purchaser of the local papers, discontinued The Sun in 1930, Bill went to work in the Times newsroom.
He recalled as a schoolboy seeing U.S. President William Howard Taft when he visited Portsmouth in 1912 and President Warren G. Harding in 1920 in the 1932 campaign. Bill boarded a Norfolk & Western Railway train in Ironton and interviewed President Herbert Hoover en route to Portsmouth.
In later years, he interviewed Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon as well as presidential candidates including Alf Landon, former governor of Kansas, in 1936, Wendell Willkie, U.S. Sen. Robert Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Jerry Ford and John Kennedy. He met President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan.
He was an early supporter of aviation active in reporting aviation news and a member of the Scioto County Airport Advisory Commission which supervised construction of the airport at Minford, serving as secretary of the commission.
He was instrumental in Ohio Gov. James A Rhodes' decision to build the Southern Ohio Correction Facility at Lucasville and received many commendations from officials of the Atomic Energy Commission, federal agencies and the Associated Press for coverage of the atomic energy plant near Piketon. He covered the steel and shoe manufacturing industries through the years in Portsmouth.
Burns was preceded in death by his wife, the former Dorothy Dunn, in October 1978.
Surviving are three brothers, Lowell E. Burns and Walter H. Burns of Portsmouth, and Robert H. Burns of St. Louis; four sisters, Catherine Brandel and Esther Tutwiler of Winona Lake, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Cochran and Helen Mathews of Portsmouth; and several nieces and nephews.
Service is Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Daehler Fuenral Home, with the Rev. Thomas Hoffman officiating and burial in Greenlawn Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday from 6 to 9 p.m. with Masonic rites planned at 8 p.m.
Portsmouth Daily Times
Portsmouth, Ohio
Monday, 6 June 1988
L.W. "BILL" BURNS, 84,
RETIRED NEWSMAN, DIES
Louis William "Bill" Burns, an officer of the Scioto County Fair Board for many years, died Sunday at Hill View Health Care Facility. He had retired after 50 years as labor industry editor for The Portsmouth Daily Times. He was 84.
A native of Portsmouth, he resided at Hill View Retirement Center for several years but continued his interests in the community and in the operation of the county fair. He was a director, secretary-treasurer and manager of the Scioto County Agriculture Society, sponsor of the county fair.
He also was a director and past president of the Ohio Fair Managers Association and past chairman of the Ohio Expositions Commission, which sponsors the Ohio State Fair.
A 32nd degree Mason, he was past president of the Scioto County Scottish Rite Club and past president of Portsmouth Shrine Club. He was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church and a member of the Ohio State Fair Hall of Fame.
Widely known as an expert reporter, Burns covered major fires and natural disasters, business and industrial developments, and government and political events in the Portsmouth area for years. Among the biggest stories were the 1937 flood, and the 1968 tornado which struck the Wheelersburg area.
He recalled starting to work at the age of 13 when he delivered newspapers in snow on a cold Sunday morning for a friend who became ill. The Times circulation manager at the time rewarded him with a regular Hilltop paper route. During high school days, he worked in The Times mail room and later was foreman of the Morning Sun mail room before accepting a reporting job on The Sun in 1927. When Brush Moore Newspapers, purchaser of the local papers, discontinued The Sun in 1930, Bill went to work in the Times newsroom.
He recalled as a schoolboy seeing U.S. President William Howard Taft when he visited Portsmouth in 1912 and President Warren G. Harding in 1920 in the 1932 campaign. Bill boarded a Norfolk & Western Railway train in Ironton and interviewed President Herbert Hoover en route to Portsmouth.
In later years, he interviewed Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon as well as presidential candidates including Alf Landon, former governor of Kansas, in 1936, Wendell Willkie, U.S. Sen. Robert Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Jerry Ford and John Kennedy. He met President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan.
He was an early supporter of aviation active in reporting aviation news and a member of the Scioto County Airport Advisory Commission which supervised construction of the airport at Minford, serving as secretary of the commission.
He was instrumental in Ohio Gov. James A Rhodes' decision to build the Southern Ohio Correction Facility at Lucasville and received many commendations from officials of the Atomic Energy Commission, federal agencies and the Associated Press for coverage of the atomic energy plant near Piketon. He covered the steel and shoe manufacturing industries through the years in Portsmouth.
Burns was preceded in death by his wife, the former Dorothy Dunn, in October 1978.
Surviving are three brothers, Lowell E. Burns and Walter H. Burns of Portsmouth, and Robert H. Burns of St. Louis; four sisters, Catherine Brandel and Esther Tutwiler of Winona Lake, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Cochran and Helen Mathews of Portsmouth; and several nieces and nephews.
Service is Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Daehler Fuenral Home, with the Rev. Thomas Hoffman officiating and burial in Greenlawn Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday from 6 to 9 p.m. with Masonic rites planned at 8 p.m.
Portsmouth, Ohio
Monday, 6 June 1988
L.W. "BILL" BURNS, 84,
RETIRED NEWSMAN, DIES
Louis William "Bill" Burns, an officer of the Scioto County Fair Board for many years, died Sunday at Hill View Health Care Facility. He had retired after 50 years as labor industry editor for The Portsmouth Daily Times. He was 84.
A native of Portsmouth, he resided at Hill View Retirement Center for several years but continued his interests in the community and in the operation of the county fair. He was a director, secretary-treasurer and manager of the Scioto County Agriculture Society, sponsor of the county fair.
He also was a director and past president of the Ohio Fair Managers Association and past chairman of the Ohio Expositions Commission, which sponsors the Ohio State Fair.
A 32nd degree Mason, he was past president of the Scioto County Scottish Rite Club and past president of Portsmouth Shrine Club. He was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church and a member of the Ohio State Fair Hall of Fame.
Widely known as an expert reporter, Burns covered major fires and natural disasters, business and industrial developments, and government and political events in the Portsmouth area for years. Among the biggest stories were the 1937 flood, and the 1968 tornado which struck the Wheelersburg area.
He recalled starting to work at the age of 13 when he delivered newspapers in snow on a cold Sunday morning for a friend who became ill. The Times circulation manager at the time rewarded him with a regular Hilltop paper route. During high school days, he worked in The Times mail room and later was foreman of the Morning Sun mail room before accepting a reporting job on The Sun in 1927. When Brush Moore Newspapers, purchaser of the local papers, discontinued The Sun in 1930, Bill went to work in the Times newsroom.
He recalled as a schoolboy seeing U.S. President William Howard Taft when he visited Portsmouth in 1912 and President Warren G. Harding in 1920 in the 1932 campaign. Bill boarded a Norfolk & Western Railway train in Ironton and interviewed President Herbert Hoover en route to Portsmouth.
In later years, he interviewed Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon as well as presidential candidates including Alf Landon, former governor of Kansas, in 1936, Wendell Willkie, U.S. Sen. Robert Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Jerry Ford and John Kennedy. He met President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan.
He was an early supporter of aviation active in reporting aviation news and a member of the Scioto County Airport Advisory Commission which supervised construction of the airport at Minford, serving as secretary of the commission.
He was instrumental in Ohio Gov. James A Rhodes' decision to build the Southern Ohio Correction Facility at Lucasville and received many commendations from officials of the Atomic Energy Commission, federal agencies and the Associated Press for coverage of the atomic energy plant near Piketon. He covered the steel and shoe manufacturing industries through the years in Portsmouth.
Burns was preceded in death by his wife, the former Dorothy Dunn, in October 1978.
Surviving are three brothers, Lowell E. Burns and Walter H. Burns of Portsmouth, and Robert H. Burns of St. Louis; four sisters, Catherine Brandel and Esther Tutwiler of Winona Lake, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Cochran and Helen Mathews of Portsmouth; and several nieces and nephews.
Service is Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Daehler Fuenral Home, with the Rev. Thomas Hoffman officiating and burial in Greenlawn Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday from 6 to 9 p.m. with Masonic rites planned at 8 p.m.
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