Legendary Cobb Journalist Bill Kinney Dead at 91

MARIETTA, GA -- One of Georgia’s best-known and longest living journalists died Sunday morning.

Bill Kinney, editor emeritus of the Marietta Daily Journal, was 91.

Born in 1924 in Vinings, Kinney was known as a living, breathing encyclopedia for everything Cobb County. He began working for the weekly Cobb County Times while a student at Marietta High School in 1938 as a stringer, covering local high school sports.

Kinney worked his way through a series of newspapers first owned by Otis Brumby, Sr., and then Brumby, Jr. He served as editor of the Times and then, after the paper bought the Marietta Daily Journal, became that paper’s editor.

He retired in 2013 after a 75-year journalistic career.

Kinney’s funeral will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 25, at First United Methodist Church of Marietta. The family is receiving friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Mayes Ward-Dobbins Funeral Home in Marietta.