R.I.P.: Longtime WA Radio Personality Bob Massey

Bob Massey

Robert Alan Massey, who celebrated this spring as the oldest active on-air radio personality in the U.S., died early Sunday morning July 26, 2015.

Massey, 90, known as “Classy Bob Massey,” had been ill since mid-June and seemed to be improving, but his condition worsened a week ago and he died just after midnight Sunday at Olympic Medical Center, said Jeff Bankston, vice president of Sequim Community Broadcasting, which owns Sequim-based KSQM 91.5 FM.

Susan Trumble, Massey's daughter, asked that in lieu of flowers, friends and fans make donations to KSQM, the nonprofit public broadcast station where Massey worked.

“His passion was the radio station,” Trumble said.

Massey was a 23-year resident of Sequim and a radio broadcaster from 1945 through this June when he fell ill.