Kurt G. Franck was remembered Saturday, March 16, as a tenacious newsman, a sound-minded businessman, a tough-but-fair leader with a gentlemanly demeanor and a principled advocate for journalism.
Mr. Franck, vice president of newspaper operations for Block Communications Inc., the company that owns the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and its sister newspaper, The Blade of Toledo, Ohio, died Friday, March 15, at Hospice of Northwest Ohio in Perrysburg, Ohio, following a two-year battle with an aggressive form of kidney cancer. He was 67.
