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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 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. 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 2016 as the newspaper's executive editor. She was also general manager for her last two years.[1]
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.[1]
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.[1]
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.[1]