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Eileen Chamberlain Lockwood, a freelance writer and journalist, died on June 22, 2025, at Benedictine Living Community in St. Joseph, Missouri. She was 91 years old.
Eileen was born on February 20, 1934, in Schenectady, New York, to Irving Joseph Chamberlain and Rhea Alice Rea Chamberlain. She graduated from the former Nott Terrace High School in Schenectady, then received a degree in journalism from Syracuse University in 1955.
She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority and was tapped for membership in junior and senior women’s honoraries and for Phi Beta Kappa. She sang with SU’s Catholic Choir and was a foreign student guide. But her major “job” in college was with the student newspaper, the Syracuse Daily Orange, where she met her future husband, George J. Lockwood. She became the managing editor during her senior year.
She worked for two summers as a reporter for the then Schenectady Union-Star. After their marriage on September 3, 1955, Eileen and George moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she became a reporter at both the Minneapolis Tribune and Minneapolis Star (now Star-Tribune) while George studied for his master’s degree at the University of Minnesota. During a short residence in Chicago, Illinois, she was an assistant editor at The Modern Hospital magazine (now Modern Healthcare). Then the couple relocated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where they lived for 30 years and raised four children.
Source: Eileen Chamberlain Lockwood, freelance writer and journalist, has died at age 91 – Editor
