Obit: Ender, August F. (? - 1959)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Ender, Leary, Radatz

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) April 9, 1959

Ender, August F. (? - 3 April 1959)

August F. Ender, 77, who published The Clark County Press for a brief period 20 years ago, was buried Monday morning following services in St. Mary’s Catholic Church at Durand.  He died April 3, following an illness which had hospitalized him for several months.

Mr. Ender came to Neillsville with his family in 1937, when he purchased the old Neillsville Press. Shortly afterward he bought the Clark County Journal, a second weekly newspaper published here, and combined the two papers. The Granton News was bought early in 1938, and its list was added to that of the Press.

August 28, 1938, he sold the Press to the present owners, and returned to Durand, where he re-purchased the Durand Courier-Wedge, a newspaper which he published until his death.  Active management of the Courier-Wedge has been in the hands of a son, William, who was editor of the Press under his father here.

During his life Mr. Ender owned or was co-owner of 21 weekly newspapers and a daily.  The largest of them were the Chippewa Herald, a daily, and he Rice Lake Chronotype.  He spent 14 years in Rice Lake before selling out to his partner, Warren D. Leary, and coming to Neillsville.

A member of Sigma Delta Chi, national honorary journalism fraternity, Mr. Ender started as a reporter on the Eau Claire Leader following his graduation from the University of Wisconsin.  He also worked on newspapers at Spokane, Wash., and Escanaba, Mich.

In addition to Mrs. Ender and William, he is survived by two sons, Carl of Durand, and Donald, who is in the printing business in Eau Claire. A brother, Frank of Chippewa Falls and a sister, Mrs. Louise Radatz of Nelson, also survive.