[Scan-DC] Walt Starling Dies

[Doug K.]

Interesting... neigbor told me about it this morning, and I went through the 
same thing, as I worked with the father - my first job was at Capitol Radio 
in '68 or '69.  I never met the son, wondered how old he was... 2 yrs 
younger than I am - ugh.  Article is datelined Laytonsville, that's in my 
back yard, so to speak.  (Frank Herzog lives nearby also.)

Apparently the girl on whatever channel she's on is a niece of Walt the 
Younger, I'm told.

Doug in Gaithersburg

>From: b_thom at juno.com
>To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net, k3lu at radiointel.com
>Subject: [Scan-DC] Walt Starling Dies
>Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:06:41 -0500
>
>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
>
> >>
>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.
>....
><<
>
>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
>
> >>
>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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