Sharon Steele--Rest in Peace

[kritic]

from Scott Fybush's NERW 9/26/05

It was a sad start to the week last Monday in western MASSACHUSETTS, as WBEC-FM (105.5 Pittsfield) morning host Big Mike Patrick had to tell his listeners that his co-host, Sharon Steele, had died during childbirth .

Steele, whose real name was Sharon Brophy-Forst, died September 15 while giving birth to daughter Olivia. Sadly, Olivia didn't survive, either, and our sympathies go out to Sharon's husband Kyle.

Steele's career began in her native Vermont, at WZRT (97.1 Rutland), and took her to upstate New York, Delaware and WHMP-FM (99.3 Northampton) before she settled in at "Live 105" a few years back. She was just 38.

 

[mrdarcy]

> from Scott Fybush's NERW 9/26/05
>
> It was a sad start to the week last Monday in western
> MASSACHUSETTS, as WBEC-FM (105.5 Pittsfield) morning host
> Big Mike Patrick had to tell his listeners that his co-host,
> Sharon Steele, had died during childbirth .
>
> Steele, whose real name was Sharon Brophy-Forst, died
> September 15 while giving birth to daughter Olivia. Sadly,
> Olivia didn't survive, either, and our sympathies go out to
> Sharon's husband Kyle.
>
> Steele's career began in her native Vermont, at WZRT (97.1
> Rutland), and took her to upstate New York, Delaware and
> WHMP-FM (99.3 Northampton) before she settled in at "Live
> 105" a few years back. She was just 38.
>

My sympathies to Sharon's family. I met Sharon while we were attending college in Vermont together (as far as I knew, she was from Lowell, MA - not VT), and she was one of the most vivacious, fun-loving, and musically-talented people I've known. We crossed each other's paths a few years ago, and I was glad to see she was doing so well. Those of us who knew you will never forget you, Sharon.

"Highway run, into the midnight sun...."