[AARA] Rick Webb WA5PCE - Silent Key
Herman Campbell
kn5grk at lusfiber.net
Fri May 9 12:38:04 CDT 2014
I just found this out today. He was also known as "The Jelly Man" at
many Hamfests.
Herman
KN5GRK
*Condolences - **"The SELARC "Hamster" - May 2014 Issue*
Sympathy and best wishes go the family of J.R. "Rick" Webb WA5PCE SK,
who passed away on May 1st in Hammond. Rick was a Charter Member of
SELARC and had a lifetime career in radio, beginning as a Merchant
Marine shipboard radio operator in WWII, aircraft radio operator for Pan
American Airlines and then 40 years in broadcasting on the Northshore.
The family has made a donation to SELARC of Rick's ham station equipment.
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Jacob Russell "Rick" Webb
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died on May 1, 2014 in Hammond, Louisiana. Born in Ponchatoula,
Louisiana on January 19, 1922 he was 92 years of age. He was the son of
Burton Scarborough and Julia Mixon Webb of Watson, Louisiana.
While leaving home at age 16 to join the Civil Conservation Corps
working in Oregon and Washington, he set his life course in radio
broadcasting by studying at Gallops Island, Boston, Massachusetts for
the Merchant Marines to earn his Radio Telegraph license. He gained
wartime Veterans Status as a shipboard radio operator on Sun Oil Company
tanker ships in the western Atlantic and the Southern Pacific Oceans and
the Gulf of Mexico.
It was on one of his trips home that he met and soon married a young New
Jersey woman, Barbara "Buzzy" Deak. After the war, he flew with Pan
American Airlines in the Caribbean and Central and South America as
radio operator. His broadcast career of 40 years began first at WIHL in
Hammond and then the newer radio station WARB in Covington where he was
a fixture until the middle 1980's.
After retirement, he and Buzzy made a new career selling homemade jams
and jellies featuring Mayhaws, growing most of the fruits on his farm
and selling at the Covington Farmers' Market. Throughout his life he
enjoyed farming, raising cattle and horses, Ham radio, travelling,
hunting and fishing. He is survived by his children Barbara W. Dantone
(Danny), Russell A. Webb (Priscilla), and J. Rick Webb (Susan); 8
grandchildren, Mitchell, Curtis, Michael, Carolyn, Sarah, Russell,
Matthew and Anna; 14 great-grandchildren and 6 great- great- grandchildren.
He is preceded in death by his wife of 64 years, Barbara "Buzzy" Webb;
daughters Ann Marie Webb and Sandra W. Goodwin; sisters L. Lianne W.
Wilson, Lillian W. Crane, Vivian W. Hollis, Sallie W. Johnson and Julia
W. Barnes; and brothers Thomas C. Webb and James S. Webb.
Visitation will be held Sunday, May 4 from 12 to 2 at the Lee's Landing
United Methodist Church, 38346 Lee's Landing Road, Ponchatoula, with a
funeral service following. Burial will be at the Ponchatoula Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Southeastern Louisiana
University Development Foundation at SLU Box 10703, Hammond, LA 70402 in
support of KSLU Radio or the Sandy Goodwin Athletic Scholarship.
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