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08-12-2006, 03:55 PM
LAWRENCE C. "LONNIE" Falk 63, of Prospect, died Friday, June 9, 2006. He was the Mayor of the City of Prospect, Kentucky for the last 13 years. He was (past) Council member, City of Prospect. For the Jefferson County League of Cities, he was Past President and is currently Vice President and President elect. He is a Director of Republic Bank. In addition, he had a long career in journalism and publishing. He had been editor of the Crimson White, The University of Alabama newspaper, a reporter for The Birmingham Post-Herald and a Bureau Manager in Birmingham, Raleigh and Chicago and Alabama state Editor for UPI (United Press International). During his years in journalism, he covered the following historical events: He was one of the first reporters to cover devastating Hurricane Camilla on-location in New Orleans; He reported on Neil Armstrong's landing on the moon; He covered a breadth of civil rights developments, including Martin Luther King Jr., the Alabama civil rights movement, the state's race riots and Governor George Wallace's "The Stand at the Schoolhouse Door" at the onset of the University of Alabama's historic integration. Also, he was Director of Information Services, University of Alabama and Vice President of PR , for The University of Louisville. He also ran public relations for The American Medical Association. He was the founder of Falsoft, the first computer magazine publishing firm in the world, which included titles Rainbow, PCM and Scorecard, the University of Louisville sports publication. Survived by his wife Willo: two daughters Wendy MacGregor (P.J.) of Chicago, IL, and Laurie Fields (Jason) of Atlanta, GA; and five grandchildren, Benjamin, Connor and Jeremiah Fields, and Madison Barsky and Sophia MacGregor.
Funeral services will be at 4 p.m. Monday (today) at The Temple, 5101 US Highway 42. Visitation will begin after 2:30 p.m. Burial will take place in Birmingham, AL, on Wednesday.
In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to City of Prospect Reading Center.
In July of 1981 CoCo users in Prospect Kentucky got their hands on the very first issue of "The Rainbow". It was printed on in Mr. Falk's spare bedroom on a dot matrix printer. I consisted of four pages, front and back and was mass produced on a copying machine at a neighborhood drug store.
Since that day, The Rainbow grew close to 300 pages during its heyday and returned to its newsletter-esque roots until the magazine's end in May of 1993. Mr. Falk's publications reached thousands of CoCo enthusiasts and was bolstered by many community gatherings called "Rainbowfest". Falsoft also branched off and released PCM magazine "The Personal Computing Magazine for Tandy Users", covering pretty much all non CoCo Tandy computers. Later on Mr. Falk's publishing company took a new electronic frontier: VCR-The Home Video Monthly magazine.
I can probably say without Mr. Falk's Rainbow magazine, I might not have gotten into computers. My dad would bring home the magazine every now and then and I'd type in the programs that were contained inside.
Thank you, Lonnie, wherever you may be.
Funeral services will be at 4 p.m. Monday (today) at The Temple, 5101 US Highway 42. Visitation will begin after 2:30 p.m. Burial will take place in Birmingham, AL, on Wednesday.
In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to City of Prospect Reading Center.
In July of 1981 CoCo users in Prospect Kentucky got their hands on the very first issue of "The Rainbow". It was printed on in Mr. Falk's spare bedroom on a dot matrix printer. I consisted of four pages, front and back and was mass produced on a copying machine at a neighborhood drug store.
Since that day, The Rainbow grew close to 300 pages during its heyday and returned to its newsletter-esque roots until the magazine's end in May of 1993. Mr. Falk's publications reached thousands of CoCo enthusiasts and was bolstered by many community gatherings called "Rainbowfest". Falsoft also branched off and released PCM magazine "The Personal Computing Magazine for Tandy Users", covering pretty much all non CoCo Tandy computers. Later on Mr. Falk's publishing company took a new electronic frontier: VCR-The Home Video Monthly magazine.
I can probably say without Mr. Falk's Rainbow magazine, I might not have gotten into computers. My dad would bring home the magazine every now and then and I'd type in the programs that were contained inside.
Thank you, Lonnie, wherever you may be.