Monday, January 18, 2021 - 9:03 pm
BALLSTON SPA Services for Jacob M. “Jake” Ladouceur, 29, a resident of Ballston Spa, and formerly of Canton and Norfolk, NY will be held privately at this time at the Buck Funeral Home in Norfolk due to current health concerns. A Celebration of Life Service will be held at a later date. Burial will be held in the Visitation Cemetery, Norfolk. Jake passed away unexpectedly Thursday evening, January 14, 2021 in an automobile accident in Queensbury, NY.
Jake is survived by his father, Marc and stepmother Vicky (Marano) Ladouceur, Watertown; his mother, Deborah “Debbie” and stepfather Stephen Cotter, Norfolk; his brother, Ty Cotter, Norfolk; his fiancé, Alycia Short, Ballston Spa; his fiancé s parents Richard and Ruth Short, Norfolk; his fiancé s brother Brandon Short, Plattsburgh; his maternal grandparents, Joseph and Jean Myers, Norfolk; his step grandmother Mary Cotter, Norwood, along with many close knit aunts, uncles, cousins
Jeannie Morris, Trailblazing Chicago Sportscaster, Dies at 85
She was a rare woman in broadcast sports journalism when she began her career in the late 1960s, but she helped pave the way for the many women who followed.
Jeannie Morris in 1983. Her first break in sports came in 1968 when her husband, a former pro football player, recommended that the newspaper Chicago’s American hire her to write a weekly column.Credit.Chicago Sun-Times
Published Dec. 24, 2020Updated Dec. 31, 2020
Jeannie Morris, a television sports reporter, was in the visitors’ dugout in 1972 before a game at Comiskey Park in Chicago when the Hall of Fame hitter Ted Williams, who was managing the Texas Rangers, ordered her out.