Patty Henetz, a reporter who covered everything from the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City to environmental issues for both of Salt Lake City’s major daily newspapers and the Associated Press, has died at 69.
Henetz died March 23, after suffering for several years from corticobasal degeneration, a neurological disease that attacks the cerebral cortex.
“She was a feisty thing, and very, very hardworking,” said Judy Voye, a retired film instructor and longtime friend.
A former Tribune colleague, Derek Jensen, wrote in a Facebook post over the weekend, “Patty had grit. And soul, for miles. … She cared.