The 98-year-old co-owner of a small-town Kansas newspaper has died due to stress related to a police raid on the publication’s office, according to the Marion County Record, the paper that was the subject of the search.
“Stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief after illegal police raids on her home and the Marion County Record newspaper office Friday, 98-year-old newspaper co-owner Joan Meyer, otherwise in good health for her age, collapsed Saturday afternoon and died at her home,” reported the paper, which is located in the small central Kansas town on Marion.
