Henderson Home News co-founder Zenoff dies

Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1999 | 11:29 a.m.

Delores Zenoff, co-founder of the Henderson Home News, died Wednesday at Boulder City Hospital. She was 85.

Born Nov. 17, 1913, in Milwaukee, Zenoff moved to Boulder City in 1950 and joined the Boulder City News. She later married the paper's editor and publisher, Morry Zenoff.

The two lived in Boulder City for a number of years and then moved to Henderson and founded the Henderson Home News. Delores Zenoff was known as a force in the business end of the newspaper.

"When I was writing for the Henderson Home News 40 years ago, it was Delores who kept the paper going," Mike O'Callaghan, executive editor of the Las Vegas Sun, said. "The long hours the former woman Marine put in at the old building in Victory Village made a big difference for all of us.

"Even when the building was blistering hot in the summer months she kept her sense of humor, and the newspaper delivered on time."

Delores Zenoff retired in 1969 and became active in the Literacy Council of Southern Nevada.

Always the newspaperwoman, Zenoff wrote her own obituary with blanks left for the date and name of the mortuary that would handle her arrangements. That obituary was sent to local newspapers this week.

After retirement Zenoff continued to follow the news and is remembered as an outgoing person who enjoyed her friends.

She was truly a fun person, Gene Segerblom, longtime friend and Boulder City assemblywoman, said. "We had a lot of laughs together."

Friends also remember Zenoff as an accomplished piano player. More recently Zenoff took up painting at her home on the Black Mountain Country Club course.

There are no survivors. Services are pending with Palm Mortuary.