Anne Morrissy Merick
Died on May 2, 2017 at age 83
As a television field producer, Ms. Morrissy Merick persuaded the Pentagon to overturn an edict that prevented women in the press corps from covering combat during the Vietnam War. She broke other barriers years before, She was the first woman to be named sports editor of The Cornell Daily Sun and the first woman admitted to the press box at the Yale Bowl.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.