Long-ago BJ reporter Marjie Hutson Reese Craig dies

Marjie Hutson Reese Craig, 93, who was a Beacon Journal reporter in the 1930s after her graduation from the University of Akron, died December 26, 2010 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She was the widow of another former BJ reporter, James Craig. They met at the BJ and married in Cleveland. They had six children and nine grandchildren, none living in Ohio.

Marjie's parents were William Chauncey Reese and Margaret Cronin Reese of Akron and Winter Haven, Fla. Marjorie's father was head of security at Firestone for many years.

James Barkley Craig was 1953-77 editor of American Forests magazine in Washington, D.C. when the family lived in nearby Bethesda, Maryland. American Forests began in 1895 as The New Jersey Forester and had a half-dozen name changes before settling on its current name in 1931.

Click on the headline for the lengthy obituary in the Beacon Journal.