Former Southeast Missourian managing editor dies
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Joni Adams Bliss, who was the first woman to serve as managing editor of the Southeast Missourian and who is credited for building Southeast Missouri Hospital's Web site into a major source of medical information, died Tuesday after a battle with ovarian cancer. She was 51.
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