Maudie A. Lawson, former news librarian at the Springfield News-Leader, died in December 2010. She passed away from a terminal illness. She said since she had been a obituary writer at one point in her career, she chose to write her own obit. She said she was instrumental in the launch of the newsroom’s Web site and developed an interest in database development. You can read the full obit here.
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