RIP, Art Cullison

At least 10 of his former Beacon Journal co-workers bid farewell to retired BJ editor/reporter Ardent “Art” Cullison today at calling hours and funeral services in Billows Funeral Home Fairlawn chapel.

Art, 92, died July 26 in Erlanger, Ky.

BJ alumni at Billows included photographer Bill Hunter, the newsroom’s Carol Camp, Carl Dangel, Harry Liggett, Ann Sheldon Mezger and husband Roger Mezger, Tom Moore, John Olesky, Lloyd Stoyer and artist Chuck Ayers.

Stoyer is a former BJ managing editor. Roger retired from the Plain Dealer in January after long stints at the BJ and the PD.  Ann is writing and submitting novels.

Davidson College graduate Carol, deeply involved in the VFW, fires his weapon in about 100 military funerals a year. He sat alongside Art and the late Hal Fry on the BJ copy desk. Carol retired in 1993.

Dangel also has handled PR for Goodyear and General Tire.

Stoyer’s wife, Faye Ann Good Stoyer, passed Feb. 11, 2012. He has two children, two grandchildren, two step-grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.

For previous BJ Alums articles on Art Cullison, click on http://bjretirees.blogspot.com/search?q=Art+Cullison%2C+92