Former Montgomery County Sheriff Lewis “Tom” Wilson died Friday, a day after his 86th birthday.
Wilson, of Kettering, served as sheriff from 1979 to 1987.
Funeral visitation is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, April 4, followed by the funeral services at 2 p.m. at the Kettering Routsong Funeral home, 2100 E. Stroop Road.
No photo, no recollections, no noted accomplishments- just what amounts to the same as a death notice.
In the past, the DDn has been criticized for not remembering D-Day, Pearl Harbor Day, MLK Day, etc.- so they make sure to give ample coverage- but, that’s not really news in our community, that’s fluff. A man whp served in our community as the highest elected lawman for a decade, deserved more.
The fact is, with all the “retirements” and cutbacks- the Dayton Daily news institutional knowledge base is minimal. They don’t know the history, the connections, the reason 2+2 often only equals 3 in this community.
My father chastised me for writing about the death notices- and calling them failed obits. I’m pretty sure, had I not written about them, the DDn wouldn’t have either. To Tom Wilson, and all his friends- and I’m sure he had way more friends than I’ll ever have, he deserved better. I’m sorry I didn’t catch it. And to TP, thanks for pointing this out.
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You give yourself more credit than you deserve. I am no fan of DDN but don’t you think it’s possible or even probable that your ‘failed obits’ had no impact at all on what followed them. The fact is that both were most likely in the works and getting final touches for print and would have appeared the next day anyway. Those ‘failed obits’ are routine death notices triggered by a death. It happens every day.
@observer- and yet Tom Wison got just a few lines- and no obit? A few former DDn staffers told me that they no longer have anyone there that knows how this is done. But, go ahead, make sure that I get no credit. Are you also going to give Nan credit for the basketball nets?
Welcome to Esrati.com, where you can use a fake name- and talk trash about me all you want.
I have no idea who Nan is and have no interest in basketball nets and have no idea how his relates to what I posted other than to say that it is clear now that the motivation for posting ‘fake obits’ is obviously to drive traffic to your blog. Note to insignificant people trying to make a name for the self: using the names of prominent people who have passed away to generate google results for self interest is not cool. Even your own father thought it was in bad taste.
@Observer, if you don’t know who I am, or Nan is- you obviously aren’t much of an observer. And, no, I’m not trying to drive traffic to my blog- it gets plenty of traffic.
My father, a retired journalist, made the same comment- that they are just death notices. However- the paper should have had the story on Sheriff Wilson- and didn’t. My keen observational skills say someone at the DDn is missing the boat.
Since I m not from Dayton I am only aware of you because this blog came up when I did a google search for an obituary of a loved one. I don’t care who you are or who Nan and her basketball nets are. I find it sad that a wannabe politician who wears Ninja masks to government meetings (I googled you too) has nothing better to do than hijack someone’s obit.
DE – when the paper smears every single conservative candidate just bc they are conservative and they die, do you really think that a surviving spouse who suffered thru intolerable slime of their now deceased loved one from said paper want to pay that newspaper ANY money for an obit??!! Sorry I think many have gotten wise to the DDN bull$hit. So what you get in the paper is a death notice and then a family paid obit. You want the obit longer – you pay for it. Or be a screaming lib-then you get a very “nice” say-nothing article without objection. Which of course leads me to guess which political party Sheriff Wilson belongs. Sadly, his family probably paid thru the nose for that obit.