Ron Gitschier

[Scott Fybush]

For those who haven't yet seen it on other lists... I'm saddened to 
share news of the death of Ron Gitschier, who I'm pretty sure was a 
member of this list since back at the very beginning.

Ron was from the Merrimack Valley, worked at WLLH early on, then had a 
long career in the Navy before retiring to Florida, where he worked for 
a group of stations in the Palm Coast/Flagler Beach area, serving as 
both engineer and news director.

He recently became a grandpa (and was away in northern California 
visiting his grandchild while I passed through his part of Florida a 
month ago), and died suddenly of liver failure early this morning. He 
was just 56.

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