We’re celebrating the life of Mary Garber today. She died yesterday at 92. You can read more about her remarkable life as a journalist by going here. I highly recommend the video. And for what another paper is saying about Mary’s life, here’s a piece from the Los Angeles Times.
Why all the fuss about a tiny woman who covered sports? Mary Garber’s life is all about humanity, about the desire to be accepted for who you are and what you want to do. I won’t claim a close, personal friendship with Mary. By the time I came to the Journal, she was already easing toward retirement. But the stories about her work ethic, her respect for players and coaches, and her tireless work to demand that this respect be returned are the very fabric of an eloquent life.
In her last days at here, she would come to the office with these walking sticks that looked like ski poles with tennis balls on the ends of them. She’d be over in the sports department, discussing the news of the day and adding insight and opinion to the conversation. And long after she left the Journal, we still had a parking space reserved for her, in hopes that we would look up from our desk and see her making her way slowly across the newsroom, ambling with that half smile of optimism and determination that she wore so well.
We’ll miss her.
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