I knew Lonnie at The Roanoke Times & World-News from 1978, when I started working there on the copy desk, till he retired. He worked dayside and I was mainly nightside, so our paths didn't cross often, but I remember him well. He was the epitome of a deskman from the glory days of newspapering, and a rock on the dayside desk that got the afternoon paper out. So sorry for your loss.