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Mr. Paxton ‘Led The Way To Save Our Past’

Sept. 27, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: Our community has suffered as big a civic loss as any can imagine when Matthew White Paxton Jr. died Saturday at Kendal. He was 96, and spent his entire professional life as owner, editor and publisher of The News-Gazette (and of the Rockbridge County News before the 1962 merger with the Gazette).

Sept. 27, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: Our community has suffered as big a civic loss as any can imagine when Matthew White Paxton Jr. died Saturday at Kendal. He was 96, and spent his entire professional life as owner, editor and publisher of The News-Gazette (and of the Rockbridge County News before the 1962 merger with the Gazette).

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