GARRETT NEESE
Jan Tucker, 85, broadcasts one of her final shows before her retirement Wednesday. (Photo provided by Jan Tucker via the Houghton Daily Mining Gazette)
ONTONAGON As Jan Tucker’s retirement approached, people sent her memories of the radio show.
One woman came by Tucker’s house with a folder full of yellowing recipes her aunt had jotted down from her radio program in the ’60s. Another remembered waking up in the morning as a child and hearing her mother and aunt listening to the show and talking.
“I suppose that when they listened as kids, with their parents listening, it’s a tie with history with them,” Tucker said. “It’s a tie with their families … some of them, it’s the news. Some of them it’s the recipes. Some of them is just the jokes and helping them laugh.”
gneese@mininggazette.com
Photo provided by Jan Tucker
Jan Tucker, 85, broadcasts one of her final shows before her retirement Wednesday.
ONTONAGON As Jan Tucker’s retirement approached, people sent her memories of the radio show.
One woman came by Tucker’s house with a folder full of yellowing recipes her aunt had jotted down from her radio program in the ’60s. Another remembered waking up in the morning as a child and hearing her mother and aunt listening to the show and talking.
“I suppose that when they listened as kids, with their parents listening, it’s a tie with history with them,” Tucker said. “It’s a tie with their families … some of them, it’s the news. Some of them it’s the recipes. Some of them is just the jokes and helping them laugh.”