[BC] A voice we all knew

[Lotus Engineering]

>From an HF monitoring list;
FYI

     One of the original Voices of WWV Passed away.

     Our Thoughts and prayers go out to the Family. 

    The recorded voice of Time and Frequency Station WWV has fallen silent. This
    with word that announcer Don Elliot Heald, of Atlanta, Georgia, who gave WWV its
    human touch passed away on Thursday, February 19th. 

    Known in the broadcast world as Don Elliot, Heald had distinguished career that
    ranged from work at Atlanta Georgia's WSB to his automated and
    internationally heard WWV broadcasts on shortwave. He was also the voice of the
    Audichron telephone dial-in Time-Weather-Temperature service and of the
    Protestant Hour radio show for over 40 years. For nearly five decades Heald
    narrated the televised Christmas Eve service from Atlanta's Episcopal
    Cathedral of St. Philip, where he served as a vestryman, junior
     warden and
    senior warden. 

    Heald was originally from Massachusetts, but came to Atlanta via Lakeland,
    Florida. He was a graduate of the University of Florida at Gainesville and began
    his broadcast career after graduation when he accepted a position at WRUF where
    remained for three years. In Atlanta he spent much of his spare time devoted to
    public service work with charities and civic clubs. 

    A Service of Celebration of Don Elliot Heald's life took place on Tuesday
    February 24th at the Cathedral of St. Philip. He is survived by his wife Sara
    Farmer Heald of Atlanta, GA; sons and daughters-in- law David and Deborah of
    Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, Tom and Evelyn Heald and Frank and Mary Heald of
    Atlanta. Don Elliot Heald was 86. 

Bill

Bill Croghan CPBE WBØKSW
Chief Engineer, 
KOMP/KXPT/KENO/KBAD/KWWN/KWID
Lotus Broadcasting, Las Vegas, NV