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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 10 > Longtime publisher oversaw Gold Beach paper for 41 years

Longtime publisher oversaw Gold Beach paper for 41 years

Robert R. ‘Bob’ Van Leer Aug. 28, 1927 – March 6, 2009

By WesCom News Service / The Bulletin
March 10, 2009

Robert R. “Bob” Van Leer, co-publisher of a southwest Oregon newspaper, died Friday at Curry General Hospital in Gold Beach of complications from chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

He was 81.

Van Leer was a 52-year resident of Gold Beach. He moved to Gold Beach in 1956 when he and....

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