Longtime Oklahoma Reporter/Fiction Writer Dies at 91

By: Longtime Oklahoma newspaper reporter, columnist and Western fiction writer Ed Montgomery has died at age 91.

Family members say Montgomery died at Norman Regional Hospital yesterday following a brief illness.

Montgomery worked at The Oklahoman and Oklahoma City Times as a reporter, city editor and state Capitol bureau chief until retiring in 1981.

He then went on to write columns and editorials for the Norman Transcript and the Oklahoma Press Association before calling it a career in his late 80s.

He was a veteran of World War II and also worked at newspapers in Bartlesville, Clinton and Norman.

He was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1986.

He's survived by his wife Connie. Funeral services are pending.