Lisa Katz Pagel dies

Update:
FORT LEWIS, Wash. - Services for Lisa Pagel, formerly of Marshall, are pending at the Hamilton Funeral Home. She died Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, at her residence at Fort Lewis, Wash.
Hamilton Funeral Home, Marshall, MN hamiltonfh.com


Barbara Hipsman Springer, wife of former BJ staffer and current Kent State faculty member Bob Springer, sent this email about Kent State graduate Lisa Katz Pagel, daughter of former Beacon Journal staffer Marv Katz:

To all of Lisa's friends - With that kind of heading, you know what is next. Please share with those who knew Lisa or know her family, if you would.

Lisa passed away today at about 3 p.m. eastern with her mom, Thomas, Susie and Marv all there at the Pagel house in Washington State.

Funeral Services will be in Marshall, Minnesota and a memorial service is being planned for Chapel Hill at a future date.

A while back, Bob and I started a Lisa Katz Pagel scholarship fund at Kent State's School of Journalism and Mass Comm. Any donations will support a "leadership" news student as they make their way through the university. We may have it be a freshman scholarship - but that remains to be seen. It exists for the past few months as "Lisa Katz Pagel."

Wish it weren't so, but it is. She was peaceful this past few weeks and has had visits from many through cards, flowers and calls as well as in-person visits. She will be missed as a member of our advisory council and as our good friend.

Peace, Lisa.

Best, Barb Hipsman Springer

Survivors include Lisa's husband, Major Thomas Pagel; Lisa's sister, Susie Bobenrieth, a family-practice physician in Portland, Oregon; Marv and wife Joyce, who live near Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Lisa did her J-School internship at the BJ. She was a former Marshall, Minnesota resident who died in Fort Lewis, Washington, where he husband is stationed.

Click on the headline for previous BJ Alums blog articles on Lisa.