R.I.P.: Milwaukee Personality 'Mort Snotlocker'

Angela 'Mort Snotlocker' Farina

He was born Angelo Farina in Milwaukee. His family called him Tony, and his friends called him Blaze.

For years, Milwaukeeans who listened to Dave & Carole on WKLH 96.5 FM or went to shows at ComedySportz knew him by another name: Mort Snotlocker.

Farina died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at the Lawlis Family Hospice at Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Ozaukee. He was 57, according to Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

Farina had a lifelong history of health problems yet kept telling jokes and stories, many at his own expense, for WKLH and ComedySportz. He worked at ComedySportz nearly up to the very end, his daughter, Kayla, said.

Farina's cancer struck quickly. He found out about it in late April from his doctors the day before he was to walk his daughter down the aisle for her wedding to Christopher Baca.

"They wanted to keep him, but he said no," Kayla Baca said. "He said, 'My daughter is getting married.' He didn't want me to know until the day after our wedding."

In 1991, Farina's group was doing a Christmas party for WKLH. Dave Luczak, then and now the station's morning man, approached the group about doing some bits on air. Mort Snotlocker was born.

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In 1999, Farina lost his left leg to a rare vascular condition. In July 2001, Farina disappeared from WKLH. He was gone because he lost his other leg to illness.

As usual, Farina joked about it. "When they removed the first leg, they told me I'd better stop smoking or else I could lose the other one because smoking accelerates it. But I'm still smoking. I'm no quitter."

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