98.7 WFGR Classic Hits » obit http://wfgr.com Sat, 25 May 2013 15:45:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 R.I.P. Elmer Lynn Hauldren…You Knew Him Better As The "Empire Carpet Guy"… http://wfgr.com/r-i-p-elmer-lynn-hauldren-you-knew-him-better-as-the-empire-carpet-guy/ http://wfgr.com/r-i-p-elmer-lynn-hauldren-you-knew-him-better-as-the-empire-carpet-guy/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:54:49 +0000 Craig Russell http://wfgr.com/?p=7852 Hauldren passed away yesterday at 89. If you grew up anywhere in the Chicagoland area, or in an area where Channel 9 (WGN) was carried on your cable, you knew he was. When I was growing up in Kalamazoo, we ALWAYS had Channel 9 on our cable...Bozo, the Cubs, and Empire Carpet commercials...

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]]> http://wfgr.com/the-inventor-of-super-glue-has-died/feed/ 0 And Here's Number 2… http://wfgr.com/and-heres-number-2/ http://wfgr.com/and-heres-number-2/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:27:51 +0000 Craig Russell http://wfgr.com/?p=2152 Since celeb deaths happen in 3's...Here's number 2...Character Actor Bill Erwin, best know as the crotchity old guy on a Seinfeld episode, has died at 96...

Watch him on "seinfeld" here

and, of course, Merv Griffin is still dead.

]]> http://wfgr.com/and-heres-number-2/feed/ 0 Gerry Rafferty Dead At 63… http://wfgr.com/gerry-rafferty-dead-at-63/ http://wfgr.com/gerry-rafferty-dead-at-63/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:15:23 +0000 Craig Russell http://wfgr.com/?p=2144 Stealers Wheel front man and WFGR artist Gerry Rafferty has passed at 63

Read the Story HERE

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