In Remembrance

[RadioStarOne]

Gene Chenault of boss radio fame, Bill Drakes Partner! He was ninety years old. On the LA radio Board.

 

[bossjock 56]

Forrest "Jim" Back, former chief engineer with WNOW/Q106 passed away last Wednesday February 24th at the age of 79.

 

[jimbradley]

Dave Flenner- Long time WSBA engineer, passed away over the weekend.



http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/york/obituary.aspx?n=david-j-flenner&pid=145959644

 

[vetguy]

Dave was a unique guy and great engineer. Thoughts and prayers to out to his family.

 

[TYorker]

Dave was an engineer during my stay at WSBA/WARM. It is sad to see he is gone at 65. I can remember him showing me a few things about what he did and always enjoyed his explanations of how things worked. My condolences to his family.

 

[Ticker]

I have contacted an Administrator and asked that they lock a thread for our fallen radio family of the past year. It's been difficult for a lot of us and I thought this would be a nice way to keep their memories alive. Each of the original posts are linked below. Take a minute to read them over and remember:

Pat Kain - http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,93408.0.html

Lyndi Starr - http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,66586.0.html

Doug Patton - http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,82385.0.html

Jammer - http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,65076.0.html


- Will

I added Jammer and Pat Kain to the "Find-a-grave" website. This is absolutely the BEST website to find anybody and everybody who has passed away.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=60163417 for jammer

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSvcid=170648&GRid=60163994 for Pat.

Hopefully these links work, if not just go to Findagrave.com and look there names up. You can add pictures and or flower dedications.

I also need more info on each, ie... where Jammer is buried? The obit did not have the info.
Anybody can add Lyndi or the others or get me the info and I can do it. Thanks!!!

 

[rls2115]

My first time at WSBA transmitter site when I was about 15, Dave Flenner showed me how to operate the audio board that was in the transmitter room. That was the first console I ever used at WSBA. When I became Explorer Post advisor of the WSBA post, we were given use of the old building. Dave spent many a night helping us get the a/c working in the mushroom farm under the studios. This was all on his own time. He became CE after John Shadle left and had a brain injury in the late 70's and nearly died, but pulled through and later worked under several DOE. He came to my rescue on the road several times and talked me through technical issues more than once. He'll be missed.

AL Wolfe, what a man. He would do anything for a joke. I saw him just several weeks before his death. He didn't look good, but I had no idea what he was battling. I ran into him more than once at Lowes in East York. The last time he was trying to get my two daughters to laugh. He kept telling them he was one of the teen rock stars (I can't remember the name right now). And the one liners and corny jokes didn't stop coming.
I remember one day in the late 70's, Ron Chubb and I were standing in the mailroom, discussing our plans for the weekend. Al walked by said good morning and made a few jokes and left. A few minutes later, coming from the same direction as before, he walked up to us and had the same conversation. A few minutes later, the same thing. He was walking by us, going up the stairs through sales and back down the sprial staircase in the lobby so he could pass by us again going the same direction....all for the gag.
I still have copies of the Al Wolfe joke book that were given away when he was morning man prior to Harry West. It will be hard to forget a talent such as Al.

 

[sprtschick]

Not a full time engineer, but Bill English who worked part time at The Rose, WLPA and Smooth Jazz 92.7 passed away last Monday. Anyone who met him had a story to tell.....

 

[John-Summers]

Bill English was quite a character and always had a story to tell whenever the mood struck him. Worked for a railroad full-time but was a real Mr. Fix-it around the radio stations.

Bill really saved me from my own stupidity late one afternoon when I was working at the Rose. It was around 6 o'clock and Bill and I were the only people in the building. Rain was about to roll in so I decided to close my car windows. I walked out the side door and carefully (I thought) put the rock that was always there inside the door so I could get back in. I closed my windows and got to the bottom of the steps just in time to see a gust of wind move the door just enough that the rock slipped out and the door closed and locked.

Panic! The door code had just been changed and I couldn't remember it, and my cell phone was in the studio. I didn't know where Bill was but I frantically pounded on the door, and fortunately he was within earshot, not in a soundproof studio repairing something. Never was I so glad to see Bill English! Sorry to hear he is no longer with us.