ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, March 13, 1996 TAG: 9603130051
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: POQUOSON
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
Junior Clifton Monday, a 20-year newspaper writer and cartoonist who was also an Alaskan hunting guide, novelist and television newscaster, has died. He was 56.
Monday died at Mary Immaculate Hospital on Monday from complications from diabetes, a disease he had battled for 20 years.
Monday, known as Jay Monday to readers of the Daily Press and the Times-Herald before that, wrote sports and outdoor stories and columns until he retired in 1990.
He was born in Mount Airy, N.C., and lived in California, Alaska and Okinawa before settling in Virginia in 1970.
Monday was an ardent hunter and fisherman and was vice president of the Virginia Peninsula Sportsmen's Association, director-at-large of the Virginia Wildlife Federation and an associate member of the Virginia Game Wardens' Association.
In addition to his writing assignments, Monday served as the only illustrator for the now-defunct Times-Herald in Newport News.
In 1985, he helped Newport News police prepare sketches from witness accounts that helped authorities apprehend a serial rape suspect.
- Associated Press
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