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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Radio Remembers: Six-decade Florida DJ Bob Andrews; Louisiana's Marie Bergeron

He would sign off every radio show by saying, “Don’t worry about tomorrow. God’s already there.” Bob Andrews got his start in radio in 1949, as a DJ on WLBF-AM in Leesburg, Florida, and also spent time spinning records on WEUS-AM, which became WLBE-AM (790), where he spent most of his career. Andrews, who once said, “My retirement party will be graveside,” lost a long battle with cancer. He was 81 … Marie Bergeron spent four decades reporting on news in southern Louisiana, starting in the 1950’s working for local stations KTIB-AM in Thibodaux and KHOM-AM in Houma. Bergeron was an office girl at KTIB, but persistence and desire to do news got her behind the microphone. She would later become manager for both stations before she retired from radio in 1999. Bergeron, who interviewed celebrities such as B.B. King and Elvis Presley, has passed away at 75.

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