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{{Infobox person
|name=Kathy Marcia Morrow Spurlock>
(Executive editor and general manager of the ''Monroe News Star''
|image=Kathy Spurlock of LA.jpg
|birth_place=[[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]][[Fsing<br>
Reared in [[Bossier City]], [[Louisiana]]<br>
Resident of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], Louisiana
| birth_date=June 8, 1953
| death_date=September 10, 2021 (aged 68)
| death_place=Monroe, Louisiana
| death_cause=Lengthy illness
| resting_place=
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]<br>
| alma_mater=Airline High School (Bossier City)
[[Louisiana Tech University]] (Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]]
|spouse=Lindsey Scott Wilkerson<br>
'''Children''':<br>
Ann Perrone<br>
Two grandchildren<br>
'''Parents''': <br>
Urban and Ruby Morrow}}
'''Kathy Marcia Morrow Spurlock''' (June 8, 1953 – September 10, 2021) was a [[Louisiana]] [[journalist]] who was the executive editor and the general manager of the ''[[Monroe News Star]]'' in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] in Ouachita Parish.
Spurlock was born in [[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]], the daughter of Urban and Ruby Morrow. the family moved to [[Bossier City]], where she graduated in 1971 from Airline High School. She received her journalism degree in 1975 from [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]]. She then interned at ''The Shreveport Times in [[Shreveport]] and was promoted to various editorial positions in the news departments of both ''The News Star'' and the defunct ''Monroe Morning World.'' She served two stints at ''The News Star'' with twenty-one years as the executive editor, when she retired in 201`6newspaper's Executive Editor when she retired in 2016. She was also general manager for her last two years.<ref name=obit>Kathy M. Spurlock Obituary - The News Star, accessed September 13, 2021.</ref>
Active in the community, Spurlock was a past chairman of the trustees of the Twin City Art Foundation Board. She was involved too with the [[United Way]] of Northeast Louisiana, the Public Affairs Research Council in [[Baton Rouge]], the Strauss Little Theatre in Monroe, the Food Bank of Northeast Louisiana, and the Salvation Army. She was an advisor of the Junior League of Monroe and the [[Chamber of Commerce]]. She was the chairman of the Freedom of Information Committee of the Louisiana Press Association. She also sat on the national board of the American Society of News Editors. In 2002, she was named a "Distinguished Alumnus" of Louisiana Tech's College of Liberal Arts. She mentored the newsroom staff and opened her home to her colleagues on [[Thanksgiving Day]] or for celebrations of newsroom awards.<ref name=obit/>
A classically trained pianist, she was also a songwriter, the executive producer for the locally produced film "Cowboy and Indiana.'' She was a past president of the Louisiana/Mississippi Association for Popular Music Education. She wrote a novella in 2017. She was an avid gardener and engaged in trout fishing on the White River in [[Arkansas]].<ref name=obit/>
Spurlock died at the age of sixty-eight at her home in Monroe after a lengthy illness.
Survivors included her husband, Lindsey Scott Wilkerson; daughter, Anne Perrone and her husband Jeff, and grandchildren, Kaylin and Grant Perrone.<ref name=obit/>
==Reference==
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[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Journalists]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Women]]
|name=Kathy Marcia Morrow Spurlock>
(Executive editor and general manager of the ''Monroe News Star''
|image=Kathy Spurlock of LA.jpg
|birth_place=[[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]][[Fsing<br>
Reared in [[Bossier City]], [[Louisiana]]<br>
Resident of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], Louisiana
| birth_date=June 8, 1953
| death_date=September 10, 2021 (aged 68)
| death_place=Monroe, Louisiana
| death_cause=Lengthy illness
| resting_place=
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]<br>
| alma_mater=Airline High School (Bossier City)
[[Louisiana Tech University]] (Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]]
|spouse=Lindsey Scott Wilkerson<br>
'''Children''':<br>
Ann Perrone<br>
Two grandchildren<br>
'''Parents''': <br>
Urban and Ruby Morrow}}
'''Kathy Marcia Morrow Spurlock''' (June 8, 1953 – September 10, 2021) was a [[Louisiana]] [[journalist]] who was the executive editor and the general manager of the ''[[Monroe News Star]]'' in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] in Ouachita Parish.
Spurlock was born in [[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]], the daughter of Urban and Ruby Morrow. the family moved to [[Bossier City]], where she graduated in 1971 from Airline High School. She received her journalism degree in 1975 from [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]]. She then interned at ''The Shreveport Times in [[Shreveport]] and was promoted to various editorial positions in the news departments of both ''The News Star'' and the defunct ''Monroe Morning World.'' She served two stints at ''The News Star'' with twenty-one years as the executive editor, when she retired in 201`6newspaper's Executive Editor when she retired in 2016. She was also general manager for her last two years.<ref name=obit>Kathy M. Spurlock Obituary - The News Star, accessed September 13, 2021.</ref>
Active in the community, Spurlock was a past chairman of the trustees of the Twin City Art Foundation Board. She was involved too with the [[United Way]] of Northeast Louisiana, the Public Affairs Research Council in [[Baton Rouge]], the Strauss Little Theatre in Monroe, the Food Bank of Northeast Louisiana, and the Salvation Army. She was an advisor of the Junior League of Monroe and the [[Chamber of Commerce]]. She was the chairman of the Freedom of Information Committee of the Louisiana Press Association. She also sat on the national board of the American Society of News Editors. In 2002, she was named a "Distinguished Alumnus" of Louisiana Tech's College of Liberal Arts. She mentored the newsroom staff and opened her home to her colleagues on [[Thanksgiving Day]] or for celebrations of newsroom awards.<ref name=obit/>
A classically trained pianist, she was also a songwriter, the executive producer for the locally produced film "Cowboy and Indiana.'' She was a past president of the Louisiana/Mississippi Association for Popular Music Education. She wrote a novella in 2017. She was an avid gardener and engaged in trout fishing on the White River in [[Arkansas]].<ref name=obit/>
Spurlock died at the age of sixty-eight at her home in Monroe after a lengthy illness.
Survivors included her husband, Lindsey Scott Wilkerson; daughter, Anne Perrone and her husband Jeff, and grandchildren, Kaylin and Grant Perrone.<ref name=obit/>
==Reference==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Spurlock, Kathy}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Journalists]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Women]]