Laurabelle Zack Oatis, whose pleading letter to the former Czechoslovakian government helped free her imprisoned husband, Associated Press correspondent William N. Oatis, during the early days of the cold war, has died. She was 88.
She died Tuesday at a nursing home from complications of a stroke, according to her son, former AP editor Jonathan Oatis. A graveside service is scheduled for Monday.
Laurabelle Zack was born in Duluth, Minn., in 1924, the daughter of Ethel and Maurice Zack. After graduating from the University of Minnesota with a journalism degree, she started work in 1945 as a librarian in the AP's news library at Rockefeller Center. She became enamored with William Oatis, then an AP foreign desk editor, the first time she saw him, her son, Jonathan said.
William Oatis & Laurabelle Zack were married in 1950 in London, UK.
She died Tuesday at a nursing home from complications of a stroke, according to her son, former AP editor Jonathan Oatis. A graveside service is scheduled for Monday.
Laurabelle Zack was born in Duluth, Minn., in 1924, the daughter of Ethel and Maurice Zack. After graduating from the University of Minnesota with a journalism degree, she started work in 1945 as a librarian in the AP's news library at Rockefeller Center. She became enamored with William Oatis, then an AP foreign desk editor, the first time she saw him, her son, Jonathan said.
William Oatis & Laurabelle Zack were married in 1950 in London, UK.
Laurabelle Zack Oatis, whose pleading letter to the former Czechoslovakian government helped free her imprisoned husband, Associated Press correspondent William N. Oatis, during the early days of the cold war, has died. She was 88.
She died Tuesday at a nursing home from complications of a stroke, according to her son, former AP editor Jonathan Oatis. A graveside service is scheduled for Monday.
Laurabelle Zack was born in Duluth, Minn., in 1924, the daughter of Ethel and Maurice Zack. After graduating from the University of Minnesota with a journalism degree, she started work in 1945 as a librarian in the AP's news library at Rockefeller Center. She became enamored with William Oatis, then an AP foreign desk editor, the first time she saw him, her son, Jonathan said.
William Oatis & Laurabelle Zack were married in 1950 in London, UK.
She died Tuesday at a nursing home from complications of a stroke, according to her son, former AP editor Jonathan Oatis. A graveside service is scheduled for Monday.
Laurabelle Zack was born in Duluth, Minn., in 1924, the daughter of Ethel and Maurice Zack. After graduating from the University of Minnesota with a journalism degree, she started work in 1945 as a librarian in the AP's news library at Rockefeller Center. She became enamored with William Oatis, then an AP foreign desk editor, the first time she saw him, her son, Jonathan said.
William Oatis & Laurabelle Zack were married in 1950 in London, UK.
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