Ellen Soeteber, former editor of the Post-Dispatch, dies

June 22, 2016 at 5:43 p.m. | Updated June 22, 2016 at 5:50 p.m.

by Associated Press

Ellen Soeteber, editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is seen in a Jan. 22, 2002 photo. Soeteber, a veteran journalist who was editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in the early 2000s, died Tuesday, June 21, 2016, after a brief illness, according to The Kassly Mortuary in Fairview Heights, Illinois. She was 66. (Jerry Naunheim Jr./St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT . PHOTO BY JERRY NAUNHEIM JR.
Ellen Soeteber, editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is seen in a Jan. 22, 2002 photo. Soeteber, a veteran journalist who was editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in the early 2000s, died Tuesday, June 21, 2016, after a brief illness, according to The Kassly Mortuary in Fairview Heights, Illinois. She was 66. (Jerry Naunheim Jr./St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT . PHOTO BY JERRY NAUNHEIM JR.

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Veteran journalist Ellen Soeteber, the former managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has died after a brief illness.

The Kassly Mortuary in Fairview Heights, Illinois, confirms that Soeteber died on Tuesday. She was 66.

Soeteber spent 20 years at the Chicago Tribune before becoming managing editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in 1994. She took over as editor of the Post-Dispatch in January 2001, and stepped down from the post in November 2005.

Soeteber grew up in East St. Louis, Illinois, and graduated from Northwestern University in 1972.

Her husband, Richard Martins, told the Post-Dispatch that Soeteber was hospitalized two weeks ago near her home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for an infection that proved to be untreatable. Funeral arrangements are pending.

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