Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
By RALPH ANSAMI
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — Herb Levin, the former Daily Globe publisher and vice-president who often greeted employees with, “Top of the morning to you,” has died.
Levin was living in Port Charlotte when he died on Dec. 21. Memorial services will be held in March at the National Cemetery in Sarasota, with full military honors.
A native of Sault Ste. Marie, Levin headed the Daily Globe from 1977 to 1989, after Elmer Tryon retired.
“I liked Herb. He was always willing to get around and meet the advertisers with a smile,” said former Ironwood businessman Ronnie Surprenant, who operated Ronnie’s Camera Shop downtown.
A tall man who would sneak away to the Mellen, Wis., Golf Course on a Sunday morning to fine-tune his game — which was always a work in progress — Levin presented a calming influence on his staff.
He was a war correspondent during the Korean War for the Stars and Stripes publication.
His journalism career spanned more than four decades in Upper Peninsula daily newspapers.
He served as editor and general manager of the Sault Ste. Marie Evening News for more than 30 years.
A past president of the Michigan Press Association, he was active in community affairs at both the Sault and in Ironwood.
Levin and his wife, Georgia, retired to Florida.
(See obituary, page 7)
