[Speed Gibson,
Sunday January 21, 2007 at 2:02pm]
Mark O'Connell
Veteran KSTP-AM talk radio host Mark O'Connell passed away Saturday at age 52 from melanoma.
His last gig, working with Ron Rosenbaum noon to 2 pm weekdays on AM 1500, was cancelled this past September. Perhaps this was part of that decision.
Like O'Connell, my father in law passed away in our home turned hospice for three weeks in 1999 from melanoma, so I very much understand and what Mark's wife and family have endured.
My word to epitomize Mark O'Connell would be fair. I often disagreed with him, but he made his points well and with civility - and humor where appropriate, traits no doubt drawn from his personal life that ended much too soon yesterday.
His last gig, working with Ron Rosenbaum noon to 2 pm weekdays on AM 1500, was cancelled this past September. Perhaps this was part of that decision.
Like O'Connell, my father in law passed away in our home turned hospice for three weeks in 1999 from melanoma, so I very much understand and what Mark's wife and family have endured.
My word to epitomize Mark O'Connell would be fair. I often disagreed with him, but he made his points well and with civility - and humor where appropriate, traits no doubt drawn from his personal life that ended much too soon yesterday.