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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