Jay Lee Waggoner    8/20/1959-6/30/2015
Jay Waggoner lost his battle with cancer after about a year and a half. Jay performed as an engineer but also did air shifts at WLRQ-FM 99.3, WCWR-AM 1350 and WEZY-FM 99.3. Other Central Florida Radio stations that Jay worked at included WFRB-AM 860, WRKT-AM 1300, WGTO-AM 540, WMMB-AM 1240, WWKO-AM 860, WCKS-AM 860, WHKR-FM 102.7, WXXU-AM 1300, WKKO-AM 860,  and WAJL-AM 1190.
From Jays profile on Linked- In; 
"Broadcast Engineering is an unusual profession, at one time in Florida I maintained 14 radio stations, two TV stations as well as a cable TV head-end under nine different owners (some who competed with each other), as time went by many were bought and consolidated by today’s huge radio groups and as stations changed hands I shifted also and in one case ended up with the same station twice. For over 25 years I have to the best of my ability kept my stations on the air, ready to make sure the listeners were able to be informed and safe in the event of emergencies, maintained the stations legal engineering parameters as is required by the Federal Communications Commission and repaired whatever was broken from the microphones to the transmitters."
Back in January of 2011, Jay dropped us a note:
"...last August I accepted the director of engineering position for Entercom Communications in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania , I am no longer alone and am honored to have the best engineering and IT team ever assembled. I plan to stay. And that is where Jay finished his career. Jay was 55 years old.

Tycoon Jim Walter dies at 77
The Tampa Tribune - Saturday, January 8, 2000 
Author: JANET LEISER, The Tampa Tribune 
TAMPA - From truck driver to industrialist, Jim Walter lived and shared the American dream. Jim Walter's rags-to-riches story as one of the country's top home builders earned him fame, glory and more money than he could ever spend, but he never forgot his friends, even those he knew as a boy growing up in Plant City. And they didn't forget him. In recent days, as the 77-year-old man's hold on life slipped away, they visited him one by one. "It's tough when you lose your lifelong friend," said Roy Willaford, 77, of Englewood, who has known Walter since they were students at Jackson Grammar School in Plant City. Walter, a millionaire many times over, died Thursday at his Tampa home of lung cancer. He was 77. He took his last breath at about 7:30 p.m. just as Connie, his wife of 17 years, walked into the room after returning home from a trip to Houston to see specialists for a medical problem, said his youngest son, Bobby, 50, of Tampa. "He was a great man. He helped everybody," said son Jim Jr., 52, of Tampa. "He was always there as my backup. I'm kind of naked now." Many people counted on James Willis Walter. At one time, his company, Walter Industries, had more than $2.4 billion in annual revenue and 25,000 employees. It started in 1946 with a two-line classified ad in the Sunday Morning Tribune: "NICE little unfinished houses to be moved. $895. 9410 11th St., S.S. [Sulphur Springs]." Walter had recently returned to Tampa after serving as a naval officer on the USS Newcombe during World War II. He was intrigued by the ad. At 23, he was newly married to fellow officer, Monica Saraw, and he was earning $50 a week as a truck driver. Before long, the 1940 Plant High School graduate was in business with Lou Davenport, who built the shells. The company sold partially-finished or "shell" homes to people who otherwise could not afford traditional housing. Most buyers finished the inside themselves. The business also offered financing to buyers who owned property. Eleven years and 15,000 houses later, Jim Walter Homes had assets of $10 million. He had bought out Davenport in 1948 for $53,000. Walter was profiled in newspapers and magazines across the country. He was named to LIFE Magazine's list of "100 Most Important Americans Under 40" in 1960. The following year, he won the Horatio Algier Award along with 10 others, including President Eisenhower. Jim Walter Corp. expanded into manufacturing and mining, acquiring companies such as Georgia Marble, U.S. Pipe and Foundry, and Celotex. By 1965, it had cracked the Fortune 500 and climbed as high as No. 155 on that list of the nation's largest companies. But that relationship with Celotex, now an independent company also based in Tampa, would eventually haunt Jim Walter Corp. In 1987, on Walter's 65th birthday, the publicly held company was acquired in a $2.4 billion leveraged buyout by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Renamed Hillsborough Holdings, the company landed in bankruptcy court the next year after asbestos claimants targeted Celotex, which sold building material containing the carcinogen. It took five years to clear up the asbestos litigation. The company emerged from bankruptcy reorganization as the publicly traded Walter Industries. By the time Walter retired in 1995, he owned a Bayshore Boulevard condominium, a home at Indian Rocks Beach, a condominium in Sutton Place in New York City, a spacious flat in Mayfair in London, a home on Green Turtle Cay in the Bahamas and his favorite - a 5,400-acre ranch in Manatee County. He owned a Bentley, a Rolls-Royce and an 81-foot yacht named TICA, for "This I Can't Afford." There were trips all over the world with friends. "He did so many things for me," Willaford said. "He took me to Europe, Africa, Spain, Switzerland - all kind of places I probably never would have seen without him." He and Tampa Mayor Dick Greco were friends for 30 years. "He was a great businessman, but he was an even better friend," said Greco, who once traveled with Walter to Spain to hunt partridge. Jack Almand, 73, a friend since 1946, said he often ribbed Walter about his one flaw: He gave to anyone who asked. "Even when he was used, it didn't bother him," Almand said. "He genuinely liked his fellow man regardless of their faults." Friend Peter J. Azzarelli, 75, of Tampa, recalls a trip to the Bahamas. They were returning to New York City on Walter's jet when Azzarelli developed angina. Walter, who served as director of many companies, was headed to a director's meeting. The plane was about 25 minutes from the city when Walter told the pilot to return to Florida. "This is my airplane and if you're gonna be sick, you're gonna be sick in Tampa, not New York City," he told Azzarelli. Walter dropped off his friend and flew on to the meeting, late. "His friends were always his friends, in good times and bad times," said Dennis Ross, a former vice president of public affairs at Walter Industries. "He was always prepared to go the extra mile, emotionally and financially, to help." Walter quietly made donations to charities and groups, Greco said. "He contributed to everything that was good in the community," the mayor said. In 1999, he was named to Builder Magazine's "Millennium 100" list of the most influential home building industry leaders of the 20th Century. After retiring from the corporation in 1995, he turned his attention to Walter Properties, a real estate investment firm he owned with son Bobby. Two weeks ago, he insisted on returning to the office for a last time. Too weak to walk or sit up, he was transported in an ambulance and wheeled in on a stretcher. "My father is a tough act to follow," Bobby Walter said. The family will receive friends Monday at Blount, Curry and Roel Funeral Home, MacDill Chapel. Visitation is 1 to 4 p.m.; and 6 to 9 p.m. A funeral service is planned for 11 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 509 Florida Ave., followed by a private burial. In addition to his wife and two sons, he is survived by a grandson, Alexander J. of Tampa; a stepdaughter, Tarra Mitchell, and her children James, Reid and Mark. His first wife, Monica, died in 1982. In 1972, Walter partnered with Robert "Bob" Weeks to form Walter-Weeks Broadcasting, Inc. Together they purchased WMFJ-AM 1450 and WMFJ-FM 101.9  in Daytona Beach as well as stations in West Palm Beach,Sarasota and Tallahassee.
Memo: Janet Leiser can be reached at jleiser@tampatrib.com or (813) 259-7920.
Staff writer Jerome Stockfisch contributed to this story.

Robert Morton Weeks
Jan. 19, 1927 - March 11, 2010
Robert "Bob" Weeks, 83, of Sarasota died March 11, 2010. Robert leaves behind his wife, Sylvia; his children, Elizabeth and husband Mike Smith, John and wife Linda Weeks, Wendy and husband Brian Ross and Robert and wife Maryanne Weeks; his grandchildren, Matthew and wife Amy Weeks, Kelly Ross, Daniel and wife Mandy Weeks, Clayton and Courtney Smith, Katherine and Ann Ross and Eve Weeks. Robert was the proud owner and broadcaster of Weeks Broadcasting Inc. He was a board member of the Florida Association of Broadcasters, CBS Radio Network Affiliate Board and the Rotary Club, Board of Directors and Paul Harris fellow. Robert was the president of the Bethune Cookman College Board and of the Easter Seals of Volusia County. He was a United States Navy Reserve Officer and was in the United States Maritime Service. 

Gregory Donald Wells  
Fort  Lauderdale, FL
Gregory Donald Wells, 48, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., passed away Saturday, September 15, 2001, at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A private memorial service will be held by the family at a later date. Gregory, born at St. Joseph Hospital in Elmira, N.Y. on February 17, 1953, was a former radio personality in North Carolina and WHLY-FM 106.7 in Florida, a graduate of Grimsley High School, and a member of West Market Street United Methodist Church. He is survived by his parents, Shirley and Gordon Wells; brother Gary Wells; and nephew Patrich Wells, all of Greensboro. He is also survived by many Aunts, Uncles and cousins in several states from New York and Florida. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Gregory's name to Holy Cross Hospital, Cardiology Unit, 4725 North Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 33308; or Hospice Care of Southeast Florida, Inc., 309 S.E. 18 Street, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 33316; or West Market Street United Methodist Church, 302 West Market St., Greensboro, NC 27402.

Esther White     July 16, 2002 
Leesburg Daily Commercial
Esther M. White, 84, of Leesburg died Tuesday, July 16, 2002. Born in South Hill, Va., she moved to Leesburg from Norfolk, Va., in 1950. She retired in 1994 as an office manager with WLBE-AM 790, after 44 years of service. She was a member of Main Street Baptist Church. She was a charter member of the Lakes BPW Club of Leesburg, and a member of the Leesburg Heritage Society. Survivors include her son, Jim White of Jacksonville; daughter, Kathy Smith of Center Hill; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Beyers Funeral Home, Leesburg.