WVXU's John Kiesewater wrote an obit there.
https://www.wvxu.org/post/lonnie-whe...uthor-has-died
I got to know Lonnie when he was still at the Post after I emailed him about a story he wrote. I mentioned that he had worked at various papers papers with my wife's sister and brother-in-law; first in Anderson, SC, then Jackson, MS and finally here in Cincinnati. While Lonnie began at the Enquirer, my brother-in-law was a reporter for the Post. We struck up a friendship via email & later Facebook.
He had an account here on RZ, although I'm blanking at what his ID was. While working on his book Intangiball, he got permission from the admins to set up a separate account by his actual name as he researched the book.
One of my favorite stories he wrote was him traveling around the Cincinnati area one hot summer day looking to find people playing baseball on area ball fields. I asked him about it and he took the time to find a stored copy and sent it to me. As some of you have seen in Trent's tribute, as well as from many others, he was a great guy besides being a fantastic writer.
BTW, for all the hate we have for the Cubs, his book Bleachers, about one summer at Wrigley Field is a great book.