Dee Clark

Clark, Dee WEST SENECA, N.Y. Dee Clark, of West Seneca, a country music singer and radio personality, died Sunday, October 14, 2007 in the Center for Hospice & Palliative Care, Cheektowaga. She was 61. Born Doris A. Clark in Albany, September 10, 1946, she started her professional career as a 13-year-old country singer in the Albany area. At 25, she was invited to join the "WWVA Jamboree," a radio program based in the Capitol Theatre in Wheeling, W.Va. Ms. Clark sang with a number of country stars, including Hank Thompson, before taking a job in the early 1970s as a personality on WOKO in Albany. "She loved radio, and she loved country music, and she wanted to put them both together," said her husband, Dr. Jay Richards, also a radio personality. She and Richards, who were married 15 years, purchased Pa. radio stations WBLF in State College and WLYC in Williams-port, and they worked at both stations. The two also worked as radio hosts on WGNA in Albany, WBUG and WRUN in Utica and, most recently, WJJL in West Seneca. Survivors, in addition to her husband, include a son, Lawrence C. Ashcroft, and a brother, George Clark. Her funeral will be at 12:30 p.m. today in Sieck & Mast Funeral Home, 250 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca.