Nellie Rose McCannon, age 93, of Wheaton, Ill., passed away on Friday, March 11, 2011, at Wyndemere Retirement Center where she moved to in 1997 after a long time residence in Madison. She was on the UW-Madison faculty for 37 years, 10 years of that at the Milwaukee County Extension Office. She joined the Agricultural Journalism Department to head its home economics journalism major. She handled the home economics news service and taught news writing and feature writing classes. She initiated a yearly workshop for women editors and reporters in the state and she was president of the Madison chapter of Women in Communications.
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