'Really good reporter, really good guy': Longtime Naples journalist Eric Staats dies at 55
Perhaps Eric Staats was destined to work at a newspaper ‒ but certainly not on the business side. Michele Staats Feldmann, one of his two sisters, ...
Perhaps Eric Staats was destined to work at a newspaper ‒ but certainly not on the business side. Michele Staats Feldmann, one of his two sisters, recalled her big brother not collecting money on his paper route in their hometown of Peoria, Illinois. He had the route from about age 12 to 16. 'Eric was always bad about getting money," she said. "He'd be like, 'Come on, you need to help me get the money.' And off we'd go." She would knock on the door of the subscriber to ask for the money she said, adding: "He would always come with me but step off to the side, by the bushes.