Ardent "Art" Cullison

Art Cullison, died in Erlanger, KY July 26th at the age of 92. He was the drama, movie, radio, television critic for the Akron Beacon Journal during the 1950s. He graduated from the University of Akron in 1942 in absentia. He was already serving in the Air Force. Cullison transferred to the Beacon's state desk in 1959 where he remained until his retirement in 1985. He and his colleagues won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the Kent State shootings.

He met Helen Louise Hagen while both were working on the Akron U newspaper. They wed in 1942, just before he shipped out to Central Africa where he spent most of WW II. They shared a nursing home room the last year of his life.

Cullison survived his parents, Ernest and Emma; his brother, Karl and a sister, Elizabeth. He leaves his wife of 70 years, Helen Louise; his brother, Donald of Akron; two sons, Richard of Fort Mitchell, KY, and Robert of Hopkins, MN; grandchildren, Robert Jr. of Copley, OH, Steve and Jeff of Minneapolis, Andrew of Fredonia, NY, and Rachael of Fort Mitchell, KY. He also leaves four great-grandsons.

Memorial service will be Saturday, August 4 at 2 p.m. at the Billow FAIRLAWN Chapel, 85 N. Miller Rd. Friends will be received one hour prior to the service. Memorial contributions may be given to Legal Aid of the Bluegrass, 104 E. 7th St. Covington, KY 41011, or to United Way of Summit County, 90 N. Prospect St. Akron, OH 44304-1273. (Billow FAIRLAWN Chapel)