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Duluth Newsman Dick Anthony Dies
December 30, 2011 at 11:11 AM (PT)
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Longtime MIDWEST COMMUNICATIONS News/Talk KDAL-A/DULUTH newsman DICK ANTHONY died last MONDAY (12/26)at a care facility in EDINA, MN. He was 92.
ANTHONY spent 23 years at KDAL, where he worked as an anchor, news director, producer and reporter. He also worked in local TV, at crosstown News WDSM-A and in public radio in MADISON, WI
"He was an institution," former NEWS TRIBUNE writer and DULUTH historian JIM HEFFERNAN told THE DULUTH NEWS-TRIBUNE. "The original 6 o’clock news guy."
A funeral will begin at 2p TUESDAY at HENNEPIN AVENUE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH in MINNEAPOLIS. ANTHONY will be buried at PARK HILL CEMETERY in DULUTH.