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Obituary: Rick Anderson, 1941-2018
Loaded on Feb. 4, 2019
by Paul Wright
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2019, page 20
Locations:
Washington,
United States of America.
by Paul Wright
On Christmas Eve 2018, PLN contributing writer Rick Anderson died of congestive heart failure at his daughter’s home. Rick was a long-time journalist. He grew up in Hoquiam, Washington and went to work as a copy boy at the Post-Intelligencer in Seattle. That started his career in ...
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