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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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