http://www.waltbodine.com/2013/03/wa...h-24-2013.html
Walt Bodine Signs Off From Kansas City, March 24, 2013!
"Broadcaster Walt Bodine, 92, died peacefully in the early morning hours of March 24, 2013, in the city he loved and served.
Born in Kansas City in 1920, Walt was the only child of Walton Martin Bodine and Mary Gilmore Bodine. His media career spanned 70 years from 1940 until his retirement in April last year.
Plans for a memorial service and celebration of Walt's life will be announced here later this week."
Walt was a good friend and I will miss him.
Walt in his later years after he had gone blind:
Walt on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Bodine
"Born in Kansas City, Bodine began his radio broadcasting career in 1940 at KDRO in Sedalia, Missouri.[3] From 1940 to 1946, he was at KVAK in Atchison, Kansas, KPAC in Port Arthur, Texas, and KCKN, The Kansas City Kansan newspaper's station in Kansas City, Kansas.
In 1947, Bodine moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he would remain for 65 years. He appeared on both WDAF radio and television, becoming an anchor, host, and news director for the latter. He left WDAF in 1965, moving to WHB radio ("Night Beat", 1965?74), and a few years later, also becoming KCIT's news director from 1969 until 1971. On KBMA television, he was host of "Bodine's Beat" and "41 Thirty" from the mid-1970s until the mid-1980s; he was on KMBZ radio from 1978 to 1982.
In 1982, his television home became KMBC, where he was a commentator from 1982 to 2001; starting in 1983, his radio home became KCUR, where he remained until retirement in 2012.
In 1976, Bodine was co-author of Right Here in River City: a portrait of Kansas City with Tracy Thomas (ISBN 0385007132); in 2003, he wrote My Times, My Town (ISBN 0974601241)."
I suspect Kelley's will be packed come Monday..............
