THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, April 21, 1995 TAG: 9504210502
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: RICHMOND LENGTH: Short : 28 lines
Elizabeth Lee Vantrease, a former journalist at The Times-Herald, died Thursday of Lou Gehrig's disease at 46.
Vantrease worked for the Richlands News-Press in Tazewell County before moving to Newport News in 1974 to be an education reporter.
She worked for 11 years as a reporter and ultimately assistant managing editor at The Times-Herald, the former afternoon newspaper in Newport News. She left in 1984 to pursue a music degree at Virginia Commonwealth University, despite having lost the ability to walk, write or speak clearly because of the disease.
Vantrease won numerous journalism awards, including one for a special report that examined the life of blacks in the Newport News region 20 years after the Civil Rights Act was enacted.
Vantrease is survived by her parents, John and Elizabeth. by CNB