[Scan-DC] Walt Starling Dies

[b_thom at juno.com]

When I saw this news story on the WRC website, I thought: "Yeah, about a
month ago." 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23819-2004Nov30.html

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Businessman Walter Starling
Wednesday, December 1, 2004; Page B08 

Walter M. Starling, 79, a retired electronics wholesale business owner
and longtime airplane pilot, died Nov. 7 at his home in Silver Spring. He
had Lewy body disease, a neurological condition. 

Mr. Starling managed and owned Capitol Radio Wholesalers, an electronics
parts business, in Northwest Washington for four decades before selling
it in 1996. He had joined the company in 1954 as a parts counter
salesman, became vice president in about 1965, became president in 1975
and bought the company in 1985. 
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No, this time it's the younger Walt Starling. He outlived his father by
only five weeks.

http://www.nbc4.com/news/4045928/detail.html

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Walt Starling Dies
Starling Ends Career At News4

LAYTONSVILLE, Md. -- Walt Starling, the first traffic reporter in the
Washington area to become a major radio personality, has died.

Starling, 52, passed away Monday morning at his home in Montgomery
County, Md. He'd been suffering from colon cancer since last spring.

Starling parlayed a pilot's license, and a term paper on airborne traffic
reporting, into a career that covered more than 20 years and more than 2
million air miles. Most of that time was spent circling the Washington
Beltway in a two-seat Cessna. 

>From 1974 until the mid-1990's Starling reported traffic for radio
stations WAVA, WASH, WPGC, WLIT and WARW. 
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