Louise Elliott, Insightful Journalist, Dies

By DE Editors

Louise Elliott, long-time DE contributing editor and well-known journalist throughout the manufacturing services industry, has died. MissElliott passed away Monday evening, June 26, according to a statement from her family.The cause of death was not disclosed, although it is known that Miss Elliottrecently underwent abdominal surgery. 

A native New Yorker, Miss Elliott grew up in the shadows ofYankee Stadium. As a girl, the kids on her block nicknamed her "LittleLulu" after the popular comic strip of the day. She despised the name. Miss Elliottmade a home for her family in Edinburghfor a number of years and most recently resided in SantaMonica, California. 

An accomplished and prodigious writer, Miss Elliott bylinedmore than 200 articles and news reports for DE alone in addition to her work forother publications and major corporations. Miss Elliott spent a number of yearsin high-tech marketing and public relations capacities for such companies asStructured Research and Analysis, now a division of SolidWorks Corporation,before establishing herself as a leading independent reporter on CAE and enterpriseapplications for the manufacturing industries. For a time, she was the WestCoast Editor  for Design News. 

Known to her friends for her wry humor, a cackling laugh,and her ability to cut to the chase and pose the one question that really madeyou squirm, Miss Elliott earned great respect and admiration throughout theCAE/MCAD and enterprise application industries and media. From this writer's workwith Miss Elliott, it was apparent that she knew every key personage in theFEA/CFD and PLM industry as well as most everyone in such industries as CAM andthe business media on a first-name, return-her-calls basis. 

Miss Elliott's final article for DE will appear in theAugust issue. Details on her arrangements were not disclosed.