Bob Fallstrom Stayed in the Newsroom for 66 Years Because He Couldn’t Imagine Doing Anything Else

Bob Fallstrom believed unapologetically in good news. He spent more than half of his 66 years at the Decatur Herald & Review in Central Illinois writing about high school show choirs, employees of the year and school spelling bees.   The 88-year-old Fallstrom, who died July 9 about two weeks after he was laid off as the paper’s community news editor, relished writing about people who otherwise wouldn’t have made it into the 24,000-circulation paper.