Obituary of Don Bandy in Beacon Journal

Don Bandy rated a four-column head with deck on page B3 of the Akron Beacon Journal on Tuesday:


Obituary
Retired journalist Donald Bandy dies at 76

Former reporter joins
Akron Beacon Journal
in 1969, leaves in 1997

Beacon Journal staff report

Retired Beacon Journal ''rewrite expert'' Donald Lee Bandy has died.

Mr. Bandy, 76, who moved to Bradenton, Fla. in 2006 after his retirement in 1997, died Sunday at the Blake Medical Center in Bradenton. He had been a patient at the hospital since Wednesday.

Born Dec. 21, 1934, in Washington Court House in Ohio's Fayette County, Mr. Bandy was a 1952 graduate of Washington High School.

He served two years in the Army during the Korean Conflict. He received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Ohio State University in 1961.

Before joining the Akron Beacon Journal, Mr. Bandy worked five years in the Associated Press' Cincinnati and Columbus bureaus. He also worked for three years at the Indianapolis Star and two years at his hometown newspaper in Washington Court House.

Mr. Bandy joined the Akron Beacon Journal on May 19, 1969, and initially worked on the copy desk. He also was a reporter at the Beacon Journal and a rewrite editor.

He earned honors from the Associated Press for his work, including an article in the 1970s about students left with hefty loans when the Computer Tabulating Institute went defunct.

Mr. Bandy covered a variety of stories over the years for the Beacon Journal. He had the grim task of traveling to Southgate, Ky., to cover the aftermath of a fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club that left 165 people dead and more than 200 injured.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Judy, in 2001; his parents; four brothers and three sisters.

He is survived by a brother, Calvin, of Athens, Ga.; and two sisters, Virginia Gibeaut of Worthington and Ruth Jobe of Dayton. Funeral arrangements are pending at Kirkpatrick Funeral Home in Washington Court House.

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