Virgil Fassio, a lifelong newspaper man and civic leader, spent 15 years as publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Virgil Fassio, the former publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper whose decades of civic involvement spanned interests from international relations to baseball, died earlier this month. He was 91.
Mr. Fassio’s career in newspapers began with a paper route as a boy and publication of a school newspaper while growing up. He co-founded a biweekly publication in his hometown of Pittsburgh and eventually, in 1976, came to the Post-Intelligencer, where he spent two years as general manager and 15 years as publisher.