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- "Publishing Company Director Dies at 83." Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer, 22 May 1984, p. 15:
Martine O'Bryan Fuqua, a member of the boards of directors of the Owensboro Publishing Co. and Owensboro Broadcasting Co., died Monday at Mercy Hospital.
Mrs. Fuqua, who lived at 1908 Griffith Ave., was 83.
She started her newspaper career in 1921 when she joined the accounting department of the Owensboro Messenger. She was an accountant for the paper until she married George M. Fuqua, the paper's business manager, in 1928.
Fuqua, who negotiated the merger of the Messenger and Inquirer in 1929, later became vice president of Owensboro Publishing Co. and business manager of the Messenger-Inquirer. He died in 1960.
Mrs. Fuqua did accounting and income tax work for the Messenger-Inquirer for more than 30 years. She had served on the publishing company's board since 1954 and became an officer of the company in 1960.
She had served since 1959 as a director and officer of the Owensboro Broadcasting Co., which operates WOMI and WBKR.
In recent years she was director emeritus on both boards.
Mrs. Fuqua was a member of Immaculate Catholic Church.
She was actively involved in the Business and Professional Women's Club. She also was the treasurer for the Woman's Club of Owensboro for four years and the club's second vice president for two years.
Mrs. Fuqua was born Oct. 29, 1900, in Newman and came to Owensboro in 1901. She graduated from Owensboro High School in 1919 and Owensboro Business College in 1920.
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