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Familiar name in local radio being remembered

By Brian Hagen

05/23/2025

Mike " Happy" Gilmore/Credit: Bath-Naylor Funeral Home

(MSC News)-- A familiar name in Kansas and area Nebraska radio, including numerous years spent with the Hiawatha-based MSC Radio Network, is being remembered.

Michael "Happy" Gilmore was 70-years-old when he died on May 15.

Beginning his radio career in 1980 at KKOW in Pittsburgh, Kansas his years spent in the world of broadcasting span more than forty-years, including his years serving as station manager and director of sales for the MSC-owned Sunny 101.3 FM in Falls City, Nebraska. Employed by the station group for 24-years, from 1998 until his retirement in 2022, Gilmore's obituary from the Pittsburgh-based Bath-Naylor Funeral Home says, "he helped countless local businesses and organizations grow, always putting his clients’ needs first."

A local Celebration of Life for Gilmore will be held Thursday evening, May 29th at 5:30, at the Falls City Elks Lodge in Falls City, Nebraska. In his honor, guests are asked to wear something yellow to help celebrate what his obituary calls "a life so joyfully lived."

Among Gilmore's survivors are his daughter, Cassie Gilmore, his brother, Glen, his sister Mary Nell Pierson, and his granddaughter, Hannah Gilmore-Hodge.

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