K6PC 1925 - 2013
K6PC - Robert M. 'Bob' Crotinger Robert M. 'Bob' Crotinger
Tucson, AZ

QCWA # 27508
Chapter 16
First Call: W6GUY in 1947       Other Call(s): W8DDT

(Submitted by Jon Crick, ex-son-in-law and KFMB veteran.)

Retired KFMB engineer Bob Crotinger passed away at a hospital in Tucson, Arizona September 16, 2013 at the age of 88.

Born on a farm in Oskaloosa, Iowa on April 7, 1925, Bob was the only child of Harold (Buck) and Marguerite Crotinger.

Bob's passion in life was electronics in general, and radio/TV broadcasting in particular. He took his first job in 1943 working for KANS radio in Wichita, Kansas, where he met his wife, Pearla Godinez. They moved to Dayton Ohio in 1948 where Bob helped build one of the country's first television stations, WHIO-TV.