Henry F. Fuhrmann

1956 - 2022

December 17, 1956 - September 14, 2022 Henry Fuhrmann, a retired Los Angeles Times assistant managing editor, died Sept. 14 at age 65.
He is remembered by all who knew him as one of those rare individuals whose kindness and caring shone as brightly as his brilliant intellect. His nurturing was particularly evident in his role as mentor to young people trying to develop their careers in journalism and other areas of communications. For decades and until his death, he was active in ACES: The Society for Editing, and the Asian American Journalists Assn. (AJAA/LA).
He was born in Japan and grew up in Port Hueneme. His parents, Ronald and Yukiko, had met overseas when Ronald was serving as a corpsman in the Navy. After Henry was born, they decided to raise their growing family in the U.S.
Though Fuhrmann started out his college days at Caltech, he eventually decided that words, not physics, were his calling and earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from Cal State L.A. and a master's in journalism from Columbia University.
He was hired by The Times in 1991 as a copy editor and was promoted to a number of positions over the years, eventually becoming assistant managing editor for copy desks and standards in 2009.
He left The Times in 2015 and was hired as an adjunct journalism instructor at USC. Last year he became editorial director of Bendable, an online learning platform through the Drucker Institute.
He is survived by his wife, Lindi Dreibelbis; two daughters, Elena Fuhrmann and Angela Fuhrmann Knowles; stepchildren Kelly Arthur and Grant Arthur; and three siblings, Irene; David and his wife, Kim; and Glen and his wife, Maria.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial donations be sent to one of Fuhrmann's two favorite causes: the Richard S. Holden Diversity Fellowship (https://aceseditors.org/awards/richard-s-holden-editors-fellowship) or the AAJA/LA https://aaja-la.org/.