Ledger honors memory of Hunsberger
Bill Hunsberger, the longtime and spirited former publisher of The Clarion-Ledger, was memorialized on the fourth anniversary of his death Friday when the newspaper renamed its community room in his honor.
Hunsberger was felled by a heart attack June 13, 2004. He was only 55 years old.
Lauded as a decent man who fervently loved his newspaper and the community it served, Hunsberger served two stints at the C-L, first as its circulation manager in the 1980s and later as its publisher upon his return in 1998.
Clarion-Ledger publisher Larry Whittaker posthumously awarded the Gannett Company’s Chairman’s Ring to Hunsberger by presenting it to his three daughters.