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Helen Ayers
Appalachian Daughter-35987
Mrs. Ayers is a retired self-educated newspaper journalist.She spent twenty-one years writing for and managing a weekly newspaper in central Indiana. She won many stat...view moreAppalachian Daughter-35987
Mrs. Ayers is a retired self-educated newspaper journalist.She spent twenty-one years writing for and managing a weekly newspaper in central Indiana. She won many state and national press awards along the way for her stories. In her early years she worked as an executive secretary and computer programmer. In 1972, having decided to become a journalist, she quit her secretary job and set out to become a writer. Having a good editor helped her immensely and eight days after starting with the newspaper she was named its General Manager. One of her projects involved writing longer stories about people she knew who had died that week. These "Send Offs" became so popular that one older gentlemen asked her repeatedly to write his send off before he died so he could read what she had to say about him. She now lives in beautiful southern Brown County, Indiana with her husband, Mickey, and three little dogs. They have two sons and two grandchildren. She still loves to write stories and interview subjects.view less