Lifelong subscriber couple recalls reading big news first in the paper

John and Ann Wolf of Englewood grew up reading the Dayton Daily News and have been subscribers themselves since the 1960s. They remember reading about everything from the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Watergate scandal. Tom Gilliam/ STAFF

John and Ann Wolf of Englewood grew up reading the Dayton Daily News and have been subscribers themselves since the 1960s. They remember reading about everything from the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Watergate scandal. Tom Gilliam/ STAFF
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By Max Filby
Sept 19, 2019
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Ann Wolf and her husband John grew up reading the Dayton Daily News and remember seeing nearly every significant event of the last 80 years in print first.

John Wolf learned to read at 4-years-old by reading the comics in the Dayton Daily News. Ann Wolf said she turned to the newspaper for coverage of everything from the death of president Franklin D. Roosevelt, to the assassination of president John F. Kennedy and the Watergate scandal that plagued president Richard Nixon and eventually led to his resignation on Aug. 9 1974.

“I remember reading it when Roosevelt died and the whole world stopped,” Ann Wolf said. “The whole family always read the news.”

Ann Wolf also remembers learning in 1948 about the death of a Dayton icon —Orville Wright, who along with Wilbur Wright invented the first airplane.

The Wolfs, both 81, of Englewood, said they “consider the news a friend that works to help keep us informed.” Together, they began subscribing on their own in 1966 and have been receiving the paper every day ever since, Ann Wolf said.

Ann Wolf said she still considers the newspaper to be a “very important” part of her day and something neither she nor her husband plan to give up anytime soon.

“We haven’t given up on the newspaper,” Ann Wolf said. “I do understand why younger people prefer to read thing online, but I’m addicted to holding the paper.

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