BLUFORD, Ill. -- Before his retirement, Dean Nayes of Bluford crisscrossed the nation as a Linotype operator. During his career, he was employed by more than 80 newspapers, ranging from The Hill City ...

Before digital printing, there were Linotype operators, or typesetters, who used the Linotype machine to print the written word. The machine was introduced in 1884 using hot metal blocks to imprint ...

When Jessie Winters moved to Las Cruces with her family in the 1960s, she would set aside her nomadic life and establish a home for the rest of her 100 years. Winters celebrated 10 decades on June 27 ...

LOWELL — Francis L. “Deke” Descoteaux, 88, a Lowell resident who was a retired linotype operator for a local printing company and a World War II veteran, died Sunday morning, Aug. 14, at Lowell ...

Bill Campbell might have had ink in his blood, but he never got it on his crisply laundered white dress shirts. A hands-on newspaperman of the old school, he learned the business as a printer and ...

Ervin Oliver Bagstad, 85, of Santee died March 13. He was born in Winger, Minn., and was a newspaper linotype operator and clockmaker. He served in the Navy during World War II, and was a member of ...

I come from a long line of printers: job-shop printers, newspaper compositors, linotype operators, etc. I have printer’s ink in my blood, as they say, and enjoyed working with my father in his shop, ...

Ronald L. Naugle, 59, Reading, passed away Aug. 18, 2008, in Reading Hospital, where he had been a patient for 12 days. Born in Reading, he was a son of Mary C. (Sponagle) Naugle, with whom he resided ...

HOBBS, HAROLD Harold Hobbs was born in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, and attended Carrick Elementary School in Sloan Street and Lurgan Technical Institute in William Street. It was from there he went to ...