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| Ken Willard |
He was 72, according to hutchnews.com.
Willard worked at various stations around Kansas during his long career and retired in Scottsdale.
"Ken and I grew up together," said Dan Deming, Reno County commissioner and former KWBW station manager. "We were second cousins. We both got interested in radio at a very early age and we'd sometimes sneak out of church services to go over to the radio station (next door) to mix with the disc jockeys and learn about things. That's how we both got started."
Willard landed his first part-time radio job while still in high school, said his ex-wife, Gretchen Singh, and had a top 10 radio show on a local station as a teenager.
"He had a great radio voice," she said, "and he was very gregarious."
Willard's first full-time radio job, said John Brennan, sales manager at KWBW radio, was with station KSAL in Salina.
After working several years as a disc jockey, Williad became manager of KWHK radio, which at that time was an AM contemporary music station. He also provided input to the station owners, Deming said, for their operations in Little Rock and Montana.
After leaving the station, Willard worked as a correspondent covering the Kansas Legislature for a number of years, providing his stories to numerous stations around the state.
Willard served several terms as president of the Kansas Broadcasters Association.
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