Merri Dee and Pervis Spann, both Chicago broadcasting legends, passed away this week.
Merri Dee was described by the late performer Nancy Wilson, in her 2013 memoir. with the words “trailblazing TV and radio icon,” and “girl-next-door” in Dee’s “Merri Dee: Life Lessons on Faith, Forgiveness & Grace.”
Dee died this week at the age of 85. Her death was reported Wednesday by WGN and family members, who said sheDee was many things to many people, including advocate and philanthropists. She hosted parades and telethons, and when she retired as WGN’s manager of its Children’s Charities in 2008, she had raised more than $30 million. She started in radio in 1966 at WBEE in Harvey and moved to television two years later on WCIU-Ch. 26.
“It wasn’t ‘Oh, if WGN does something, it’s for the Chinese community and I work for the Black community and somebody comes, and it’s the Hispanic community,’ ” Yu said. “She looked at every single one of these as, ‘This is what I could help because they’re all part of the city I love.’ That was just so clear to me that for her, it was, we were all part of the city that she loved and if she could help in any way, she made this a better city. To me, that’s the thing about Merri.
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