Dick Feagler, whose bemused scowl and witty words entertained Northeast Ohioans for 50 years, passed away Sunday.

Like me, Feagler was born in his grandmother's house. In his case, it was Cleveland’s Anderson Avenue. In my case, it was on Walnut Street in the coal mining town of Monongah, West Virginia.

His family moved to the Harvard-Lee area for Feagler’s childhood. Feagler went to John Adams High School and Ohio University, where he met concert violinist Grace. They had four children before divorcing in 1983.

Cleveland pop culture critic Mark Dawidziak provides a superb portrait of Feagler:

“Man, did this man know how to push nouns against verbs with a style that was every bit as engaging as it was provocative. And the guy behind the words was pretty engaging, too.”

Mark first came face to face with Feagler in 1983, when Mark was BJ television critic under my “guidance” as Television Editor.

The Cleveland Press, which ran Feagler’s column, folded, so Feagler began doing legendary commentary on WKYC-Channel 3.

Between WKYC and public station WVIZ-Channel 25 work on “Feagler and Friends,” Feagler won more than 20 local Emmys.

Mark concluded:

“We’ll make it goodbye in the order he would have preferred – a great writer, a great newspaperman and a great TV talent. However you cut it, Cleveland just lost a great one.”

To read Brian Albrecht’s PD tribute to Feagler, go to https://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2018/07/columnist_dick_feagler_voice_o.html