HALVORSEN, David E. c1933-1993

HALVORSEN, GRANER, MARTIN-VAGUE

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/1/2012 at 14:14:25

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David E. Halversen, a nationally prominent newspaperman, died on Wednesday, in San Francisco.

He was the brother to Harriet Graner, a Nora Springs businesswoman and city council member.

Halversen, 60, was diagnosed five months ago with an inoperable brain tumor. His daughter, Jeanne Martin-Vegue, 38, of Forest City, also died Wednesday, about nine hours before her father. She also had cancer.

Halversen was the editor-in-chief of the Alameda Newspaper Group and editor of the San Francisco Examiner. He came to the examiner in 1976 from the Chicago Tribune, where he was a reporter and held several assistance editor positions.

Investigative news teams formed by Halversen won two Pulitzer Prizes whilehe was city editor in Chicago. He also created the investigative news team that provided the Examiner's coverage of the mass murder & susicde led by rev. Jim Jones at Jonestown, Guyana. Halversen stayed on location a week straight.

Halversen was a Fulbright Scholar in Korea an dtaught at Dan Kook University.

He was born in Peoria, Illinois, but spent most of his childhood in Charles City, Iowa, where he graduated from Charles City High School. He attended Loras College in Dubuque and was a graduate of the University of Missouri's school of journalism.

[Nora Springs Advertiser, 6 OCT 1993]
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#2:

Services were held for former San Francisco
Examiner editor, David E. Halverson, who died on Wednesday, September 29, 1993 at his home.

Mr. Halvorsen, 60, who also was former editor-in-chief of the Alameda Newspaper Group and a former city editor of the Chicago Tribune, had been ill since May when he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Monday in St. Brendan's Catholic Church, San Francisco, California. A Vigil services was held on Sunday at Valenti Marini Perata and Co. Mortuary in San Francisco.

Survivors include his wife Kum Ja, three children: David, Laura and Andrew; five grandchildren: Kimberly, Alexis, Kelsey, Bryan, and Audrey Lillian; his mother, Lillian Ervay, Nora Springs, Iowa; one sister, Harriet Graner, Nora Springs.

He was preceded in death by eight hours, by his eldest daughter, Jean Martin-Vague.

[Nora Springs Advertiser, 13 OCT 1993]
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David E. Halvorsen, 60, Ex-key Editor At Tribune

David E. Halvorsen, 60, former editor of the San Francisco Examiner and former city editor and assistant managing editor of the Tribune, died Wednesday in his home in San Francisco of an inoperable brain tumor. In his long journalistic career, Mr. Halvorsen also had been a reporter and assistant to the editor of the Tribune.

From 1985 to 1991, he was editor in chief of the Alameda (Calif.) Newspaper Group. "He was a newspaper man with great poise," retired Tribune editor Clayton Kirkpatrick said.

By Kenan Heise, Tribune Staff Writer, September 30, 1993
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/keyword/san-francisco-examiner/featured/4