Ashbaugh, Don, 1898-1961

"Don Ashbaugh served in both World War I and World War II as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes and as editor of an airbase newspaper. And in between he graduated from the University of Southern California in 1927 and worked on newspapers from Manila to Paris, including nine years in Los Angeles, first with the Los Angeles County News and then with the Los Angeles Times.

In 1934 he joined the publicity department of Paramount Pictures. When World War II broke out in 1941, he joined the army.

While still in the service, Don Ashbaugh married Alice Collins in 1944. Upon his discharge, they moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where he worked at the Review-Journal as a columnist and the county editor. He then became editor of the Boulder City News, then of the Henderson Home News. Ashbaugh had a special interest in Western ghost towns, and he wrote a weekly column on "Ghost Towns of Nevada" for several years. Then in 1955 he became Sunday editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal and held that job until his death in the San Fernando (Calif.) Veterans' Hospital on Dec. 1, 1961. His wife died two weeks later."

DIRECT QUOTE from the "Cowboy Directory" online. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1siqbMsi-3l1zMoPFHY2GPYuuZ-lcX2QRERT5hP6jBLo/edit#gid=0