*G. Frederick Mohn, retired journalism teacher from Champaign, Ill., died Jan. 1, 2015 in hospice care with lung cancer. He was 85.

George Frederick Mohn was born in Northfield, Minn. on Aug. 11, 1929, the son of George Mohn ’05 and Valborg Kjosness Mohn ’24.

He graduated from St. Olaf College, served in the U.S. Navy, and joined United Press, later United Press International, in Minneapolis in 1956. He married Audrey Ostby in Bismarck, N.D., on Nov. 15, 1958.

George Frederick Mohn worked as a reporter, editor, and manager for UP and UPI in eight Midwestern states, most of the time in Illinois in its Chicago and Springfield bureaus.

He resigned from UPI as Detroit bureau chief and Michigan manager in 1969 to accept an offer to be editor of the University of Illinois News Bureau at Urbana-Champaign. In 1984, he joined the journalism teaching faculty until he retired in 1999 at age 70.

Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Audrey; two sons, Douglas and Alan; a sister, Margaret Mohn Spear ’45; and five of Audrey’s brothers and sisters, and their spouses and descendants. He was preceded in death by his parents and cousins, including E. Elise Ayers Sanguinetti ’46.

Memorials may be made to scholarship funds at St. Olaf College or the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, or may be given to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Champaign.