Obituaries 2011-2012
James A. Fellows, 77, former NAEB and CEN president, Current founder
Bob O'Rourke, 72, Caltech executive behind Loh Down on Science, other science programs
Robert A. Woods, 80, attorney for public stations, NAEB
Lynn Samuels, 69, fiery talk-show host
Judy Jankowski, 61, manager of prominent jazz stations
Dave Creagh, 60, national producer and station leader
Mike Newell, 66, veteran Iowa Press producer
Phyllis Campbell, 89, Ohio's "Mama Jazz"
Frederik Meijer, 91, Michigan philanthropist
Brian Eckstein, 40, production manager of Ball State's Indiana Public Radio
Edwin Burrows, 94, active in movement to win federal aid for public radio
Jim Leonard, 61, news host at Texas Public Radio in San Antonio and an Army medic in Vietnam
Tom Keith, 64, Minnesota Public Radio host and sound effects wizard for A Prairie Home Companion
Norman Corwin, 101, a renowned writer and producer of big radio statements in the 1930s and '40s
Art Langlas, an expert fundraiser known as Mr. Auction in Milwaukee
Terry Denbrook, 66, an FM pioneer who engineered Seattle's KUOW
Debbie Stapell, 61, longtime video librarian at PBS
Robert Peirce, onetime chief engineer for pubTV's first network, EEN
Elliott Sanderson, a key manager for decades at Charlotte's WTVI-TV;
Seth Williamson, 62, a stalwart of mountain music as well as classical at WVTF-FM in Roanoke, Va.
Larry Heileman, 66, fundraiser for stations and PBS
Shirley Gillette, education director, WNET
Nessa Forman, 68, communications v.p. for Philadelphia's WHYY-FM/TV
Kathryn Tucker Windham, 93, Alabama radio storyteller
Mary Jane Wilson, 67, Michigan programmer
Stanley Neustadt, 87, attorney for public stations, aide to Hennock
George L. Hall, public TV manager in North Carolina, Illinois and Virginia
Jim Sweenie, 76, WQED host, "bon vivant, raconteur and wit"
Chris Ulanowski, 51, former WRVO news director
Bob Paquette, 55, senior producer and morning host at WFCR in Amherst, Mass.
John F. Gregory, early manager of KPCC-FM, Pasadena, Calif.
Will Curtis, 94, Vermont radio naturalist
Howard Gutin, 80, former CPB chair and Texas public broadcaster
Bill McCarter, 81, chief exec of independent-minded WTTW/WFMT, Chicago
Kyle Dyas, 42, music director of Colorado’s KUNC-FM
Jim Seaver, hosted opera show 58 of his 92 years
Art Hoehn, first announcer at MPR, Wolfman Jack pal
Robert F. Schenkkan, 93, a Texas broadcaster who helped persuade LBJ, a commercial station owner, that public broadcasting was a good thing
Marcia Adams, 75, an author, heart transplant survivor and host of public TV cooking shows
Robert D. Smith Jr., 81, Toledo station leader and the first producer of Washington Week in Review
Tony Geiss, 86, Sesame Street writer and composer
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