LINCOLN -- Marie Roy has been writing a weekly column for the Enterprise-Leader for more than 30 years, possibly closer to 40 years, but got her first start as a community columnist with the Fayetteville newspaper.
She answered an ad when the Fayetteville newspaper (she can't remember the exact name of it) was looking for a community columnist. Roy said she had been writing for it when someone from the former Lincoln Leader called her and told her since she lived in Lincoln, she should write for the Lincoln paper, instead of the Fayetteville paper.
"So I started doing it," said Roy.
Her column called Lincoln Lifestyles appears on Page 3 of the Enterprise-Leader each week. She writes her column long hand and her daughter, Anna Cheatham of Lincoln, types in the article and emails it to the newspaper.
Roy uses her column to write about what people want to read, she said.
"A lot of people think I have to include a joke," Roy said. "They like my jokes. Some women like a new recipe. I try to write what everybody likes."
Roy said friends will tell her they read her column and that encourages her.
She writes about family and friends and said both are very important to her.
Roy, who is 91 years old, has lived near Lincoln all her life. Today, she lives just three miles away from where she was born and grew up. She and her husband, Luther, had been
General News on 04/01/2015