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HONORING SENIORS

ROY MCCOY

A Man of

Many Talents

f you are a native of Amarillo, by Jelaine Workman
it’s difficult to think about the
Iweather and meteorologists Colorado State for his first
without thinking about Roy McCoy. three years of college. He
joined the United States
Roy was born in Allison in the Navy and served as a pilot
eastern Texas Panhandle to Ruby for four years. He finished
and Cecil McCoy on June 1, 1933. college at Colorado State
He has two sisters - Mickey, who while working as a radio disc
lives in Bryan-College Station and jockey. He became sports
Wanda, who resides in Pampa. director at a radio station in
They had a younger brother who Farmington, NM in 1959 and
died at the age of seven. The family moved to Amarillo in 1960
moved to Dalhart when Roy was in to work at KGNC radio. He
the third grade, to California in the began his work in radio and
eighth grade and back to Dalhart TV as a sports announcer. His parents owned the Matador
for high school. He attended Cafe in Channing, Texas – a
popular stop for truck drivers
when the highway that ran through
Channing was the only way to get
to Amarillo. Roy and his children
often helped at the restaurant on
weekends.

The meteorologist has always had
a passion for sports that goes back
to his early years of broadcasting.
He has had the opportunity to
interview many famous athletes
such as Mickey Mantle. His
daughter, Lisa, remembers that, as
a young girl, before her brothers
were born, she and her mother
would go with Roy to Cocoa Beach,
Florida each year for the Houston

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