In the Mother’s Day edition of her Reno Gazette-Journal column “Grandma With Attitude,” Anne Pershing wrote that she hoped to see readers at a May 12 meet-and-greet. Sadly, that can no longer be the case.
Pershing, a journalist since 1983, passed away last Thursday from heart disease, after filing the column. She was 71. From the Reno Gazette-Journal obituary:
Brett McGinness worked with Pershing as her editor for the Reno Gazette-Journal.
“Anne Pershing was the model for what a great newspaper columnist should be,” McGinness said Saturday.
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