by Bob DeMay | Mar 16, 2025 | Industry News, Obituaries, ONPA News
By Bob DeMay If you’re a photo journalist or car enthusiast you lost a good friend today. Skip Peterson passed in his sleep last night leaving behind a host of friends and colleagues who mourn his passing. He was 73. Skip was chief photographer at the Dayton Daily...
by Bob DeMay | Jan 13, 2025 | Industry News, Obituaries, ONPA News
Bob “Scoop” Phillips passed away January 12, 2025 at age 91. Phillips retired from WDTN-TV in 2008 after working 51 years for the station. On the day Phillips retired in 2008 at age 75, Skip Peterson was talking with him on the phone and “Scoop” was covering a traffic...
by Bob DeMay | Sep 15, 2023 | Industry News, Obituaries, ONPA News
Dean Narciso/Columbus Dispatch An award-winning photographer for The Dispatch, Neal Lauron spent a week in Manhattan just after Sept. 11, 2001, visually sharing the horrors he saw with readers back home. He photographed floods and fires and shootings with the same...
by Bob DeMay | Feb 10, 2023 | Obituaries, ONPA News
Tom Hubbard, long-time ONPA member, photojournalist and professor passed away September 2, 2022. Hubbard, 91, started his photography career in television at WLWA in Atlanta then worked as a still photographer in Atlanta before joining the staff at the Cincinnati...
by Bob DeMay | Oct 30, 2020 | Obituaries, ONPA News
Jim Witmer, 61, died on Monday, October 26 following a brief illness. While truly a gifted photographer Jim is being remembered as a great family man and very caring individual. Born in Orrville, OH, Jim was the good-looking basketball star whose talent and interests...
by Bob DeMay | Mar 8, 2019 | Obituaries, ONPA News, Uncategorized
Longtime ONPA Treasurer Thomas “Tom” Brunk passed away March 1, at Stewart F. Meyer Hospice House in Palm Coast, Florida at age 86. Brunk was ONPA treasurer from 1969 to 1991. Brunk was director of photography for Nationwide Insurance in Columbus for 34...
