Writer blazed trails in Seattle and abroad
Seattle Times, The (WA) - Thursday, February 12, 2009
Janice Krenmayr, a pioneering female Seattle Times reporter, died Saturday (Feb. 7) at age 95.
On one wall of Ms. Krenmayr's unit at a Woodinville long-term-care facility were displayed certificates of her many journalism prizes. On a desk was a manual Royal typewriter. There was a 1983 Seattle Times staff directory, with names circled of people she had known.
There were dozens and dozens of yellowed clippings of her stories stored in cardboard boxes. She kept clippings from her two decades at The Times. There also was a thick 16- by 13-inch notebook containing 140 stories she had written from 1947 to 1951 for the Times Sunday magazine about her Latin American journey.
She and her husband, Joe, had driven from Seattle toward the southernmost city in South America — Ushuaia in Argentina's Tierra del Fuego province — on the Pan-American Highway. They ended up within three miles of Ushuaia, at which point the road ended.
Ms. Krenmayr had no children. Her husband died in 1983. They had met while attending high school in Canton, Ohio. Later, they both worked at Boeing, he as a foreman, she as a secretary.
After her return to Seattle, Ms. Krenmayr was hired as a reporter by The Times.
Ms. Krenmayr's work ranged from writing about being raised by deaf parents, and their dignity in an era when the family was mocked, to her encounter around 1954 with the famous Woodland Park Zoo gorilla, Bobo. He picked her out of a group of people and went up and hugged her, the moment recorded by a Times photographer.
Ms. Krenmayr was cremated. There are no services planned, although a remembrance event might be held later, said her nephew.
Erik Lacitis: 206-464-2237 or [email protected] (Partial story)
Janice Weckel Krenmayr was a 1931 graduate of Canton Ohio McKinley High School as was her husband.
Seattle Times, The (WA) - Thursday, February 12, 2009
Janice Krenmayr, a pioneering female Seattle Times reporter, died Saturday (Feb. 7) at age 95.
On one wall of Ms. Krenmayr's unit at a Woodinville long-term-care facility were displayed certificates of her many journalism prizes. On a desk was a manual Royal typewriter. There was a 1983 Seattle Times staff directory, with names circled of people she had known.
There were dozens and dozens of yellowed clippings of her stories stored in cardboard boxes. She kept clippings from her two decades at The Times. There also was a thick 16- by 13-inch notebook containing 140 stories she had written from 1947 to 1951 for the Times Sunday magazine about her Latin American journey.
She and her husband, Joe, had driven from Seattle toward the southernmost city in South America — Ushuaia in Argentina's Tierra del Fuego province — on the Pan-American Highway. They ended up within three miles of Ushuaia, at which point the road ended.
Ms. Krenmayr had no children. Her husband died in 1983. They had met while attending high school in Canton, Ohio. Later, they both worked at Boeing, he as a foreman, she as a secretary.
After her return to Seattle, Ms. Krenmayr was hired as a reporter by The Times.
Ms. Krenmayr's work ranged from writing about being raised by deaf parents, and their dignity in an era when the family was mocked, to her encounter around 1954 with the famous Woodland Park Zoo gorilla, Bobo. He picked her out of a group of people and went up and hugged her, the moment recorded by a Times photographer.
Ms. Krenmayr was cremated. There are no services planned, although a remembrance event might be held later, said her nephew.
Erik Lacitis: 206-464-2237 or [email protected] (Partial story)
Janice Weckel Krenmayr was a 1931 graduate of Canton Ohio McKinley High School as was her husband.
Writer blazed trails in Seattle and abroad
Seattle Times, The (WA) - Thursday, February 12, 2009
Janice Krenmayr, a pioneering female Seattle Times reporter, died Saturday (Feb. 7) at age 95.
On one wall of Ms. Krenmayr's unit at a Woodinville long-term-care facility were displayed certificates of her many journalism prizes. On a desk was a manual Royal typewriter. There was a 1983 Seattle Times staff directory, with names circled of people she had known.
There were dozens and dozens of yellowed clippings of her stories stored in cardboard boxes. She kept clippings from her two decades at The Times. There also was a thick 16- by 13-inch notebook containing 140 stories she had written from 1947 to 1951 for the Times Sunday magazine about her Latin American journey.
She and her husband, Joe, had driven from Seattle toward the southernmost city in South America — Ushuaia in Argentina's Tierra del Fuego province — on the Pan-American Highway. They ended up within three miles of Ushuaia, at which point the road ended.
Ms. Krenmayr had no children. Her husband died in 1983. They had met while attending high school in Canton, Ohio. Later, they both worked at Boeing, he as a foreman, she as a secretary.
After her return to Seattle, Ms. Krenmayr was hired as a reporter by The Times.
Ms. Krenmayr's work ranged from writing about being raised by deaf parents, and their dignity in an era when the family was mocked, to her encounter around 1954 with the famous Woodland Park Zoo gorilla, Bobo. He picked her out of a group of people and went up and hugged her, the moment recorded by a Times photographer.
Ms. Krenmayr was cremated. There are no services planned, although a remembrance event might be held later, said her nephew.
Erik Lacitis: 206-464-2237 or [email protected] (Partial story)
Janice Weckel Krenmayr was a 1931 graduate of Canton Ohio McKinley High School as was her husband.
Seattle Times, The (WA) - Thursday, February 12, 2009
Janice Krenmayr, a pioneering female Seattle Times reporter, died Saturday (Feb. 7) at age 95.
On one wall of Ms. Krenmayr's unit at a Woodinville long-term-care facility were displayed certificates of her many journalism prizes. On a desk was a manual Royal typewriter. There was a 1983 Seattle Times staff directory, with names circled of people she had known.
There were dozens and dozens of yellowed clippings of her stories stored in cardboard boxes. She kept clippings from her two decades at The Times. There also was a thick 16- by 13-inch notebook containing 140 stories she had written from 1947 to 1951 for the Times Sunday magazine about her Latin American journey.
She and her husband, Joe, had driven from Seattle toward the southernmost city in South America — Ushuaia in Argentina's Tierra del Fuego province — on the Pan-American Highway. They ended up within three miles of Ushuaia, at which point the road ended.
Ms. Krenmayr had no children. Her husband died in 1983. They had met while attending high school in Canton, Ohio. Later, they both worked at Boeing, he as a foreman, she as a secretary.
After her return to Seattle, Ms. Krenmayr was hired as a reporter by The Times.
Ms. Krenmayr's work ranged from writing about being raised by deaf parents, and their dignity in an era when the family was mocked, to her encounter around 1954 with the famous Woodland Park Zoo gorilla, Bobo. He picked her out of a group of people and went up and hugged her, the moment recorded by a Times photographer.
Ms. Krenmayr was cremated. There are no services planned, although a remembrance event might be held later, said her nephew.
Erik Lacitis: 206-464-2237 or [email protected] (Partial story)
Janice Weckel Krenmayr was a 1931 graduate of Canton Ohio McKinley High School as was her husband.
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