HUTCHINSON, Kan. — All of us at Eagle Radio are sad to announce that longtime BW Morning Show host and salesman Doug Morse has died. He was 78.
Doug was hired by the late Fred Conger in 1971 after coming to Hutchinson from McPherson and spent 44 years at BW Radio. He was sales manager and the leader in sales for the Hutchinson market for many years. Doug also hosted the morning show for 40-plus years and Wednesday’s phone forum was always his favorite day of the week.
Doug’s favorite hobby was fishing and, if you ever saw his desk, you would see 15 to 20-plus pictures of fishing trips surrounding his desk. Doug also was very close to his family and most of those fishing trips included the family. He spent many weeks at Table Rock Lake.
Doug worked on the morning show with well known names such as Fred Conger, Sam Jones, Barbara Withrow, George Batchelor, Bob Watson, to current members Sue Achilles, John Brennan, Rob Dreher and Max Bringle.
He handled the sales account list of many local businesses and, according to Sue Achilles — host of the Party Line and morning show — she never met anyone who was more loyal and cared about his clients than Doug.
One of our favorite morning show stories about Doug was when his wife Karon had a garage sale and Doug hated haggling over prices. There was something listed for $1 and this person said, "I’ll give you $.50." Doug looked at him and said, “I'll throw the damn thing away for that,” and threw it in the trash and left. He said Karon didn’t ask him to help with many garage sales after that.
Doug is survived by his wife, Karon, they were married 58 years. He also has three sons Mark, Rob, and PJ, along with numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.
All of us at Eagle will miss Doug and his loyalty to his job, his passion for Eagle and his sense of humor.
Service will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Galva Christian Church in McPherson.
The viewing is Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Glidden-Ediger Funeral Home in McPherson.
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