Journalist Recalls Editor's Memorable Halloween Costume

Anne Carothers-Kay spent most of her career at the Des Moines Register

Des Moines Register Metro columnist Daniel P. Finney posted a sweet piece this week about two former colleagues both recently claimed by cancer. Much has been written posthumously about one of these folks, Steve Buttry, and not so much about the other, Anne Carothers-Kay (pictured).

Carothers-Kay, a veteran Iowa journalist, passed away Feb. 18 at age 59. She had been since 2012 the managing editor of monthly trade magazine The Business Record. From Finney’s column:

My friend Jason Clayworth, the great Register investigative reporter, tells a wonderful story about Carothers-Kay, his former editor.

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