BR passed away January 18, 2001. He had a massive heart attack and drove off the road on his way home. See details below from a note from Frank Thompson.

BR also worked at KIQQ and KHJ in L.A., doing news for Robert W. Morgan for a while. I remember him as KOL News Director, but had left Vancouver by the time of his long stint at CFUN.

Robert O. Smith remembers him as the really encouraging guy for old Seattle radio people who were running into health problems. Robert O. knew him at both KOL and CFUN, when Robert O. did afternoon drive at KOL (Seattle) and morning drive at CFMI (Vancouver).

Jon E. Pearkins Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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Friends,

B.R. Bradbury passed away January 18 at Mt. Vernon Hospital where he was taken following a heart attack while returning home to Birch Bay from one of his various business appointments. Another motorist who saw the B.R. vehicle veer off the roadway and come to a lurching stop, called 911. The car had automatic door and window locks which wouldn't open from the outside so the paramedics had to break in.

He was a career radio newsman who worked in the 1960s at KOL, Seattle under the name Bill Munson. He had a good run in the L.A. area working for a major broadcast consortium. It was in San Francisco that he retrieved his birth monicker. B.R. Bradbury worked in Canadian broadcasting at CFUN, Vancouver, B.C. for at least a decade opposite the region's most successful dee-jay, Fred Latremouille.

As for the initials, B.R. told me he grabbed onto them at the last second when he began his first on-air newscast in S.F. Management had indicated a possible conflict with another, and senior, "Bill" who was on the newsteam. B.R. suddenly heard himself using his initials instead of a first name ... and that's the way personal identification stayed through the rest of his earthly journey on and/or off the air. His home was at Birch Bay, WA. No word yet on date of services or preferred charities.

Frank Thompson

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