Former longtime Montgomery TV broadcaster Kim Wanous has died at the age of 75. alnews montgomeryal tvnews alabamanewsnetwork
Wanous had an award-winning TV career that spanned more than four decades. He worked for WCOV Channel 20 starting in the 1960s. After leaving that station in the mid-1980s, he joined the “Action 8 News” team here at WAKA as news anchor, serving until the mid-1990s.From there, he worked at WSFA, hosting programs until about 2011.But he also had another career — working for the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services — from 1995 until his retirement in 2016.
Today, Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services Commissioner Jane Elizabeth Burdeshaw released a statement to us as she remembered him: “Kim Wanous served as the Governmental Relations Manager and Director of the Communications and Information Office for the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services for almost thirty years, retiring 3/1/2016. Kim and his wife Amy, who also worked for the department, selflessly dedicated themselves to its mission ‘to enable Alabama’s children and adults with disabilities to achieve their maximum potential.
A funeral Mass will be held at St. Bede Catholic Church on Saturday, August 20, at 1:00 PM. The family will receive friends for visitation at Prattville Memorial Chapel on Friday, August 19, from 5-7 PM. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Boys Town or Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School in his memory.
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