Larry Kent

Mr. Kent, a 6-foot-5, 300-pound Urbana, Ill., native, went by the radio name of Terry Parker when he broadcast in the 1960s from WFUN-AM in Miami, WGMA-AM in Fort Lauderdale and WKAT-AM in Miami Beach.

The shifts in the broadcast industry kept Mr. Kent moving around. He worked as a sales manager for a series of stations in California and Florida and even left the business for a while to pursue auto sales.

Mr. Kent returned to broadcasting as a weekend talk show host on WINZ-AM. In recent years he was general manager for WDCQ-AM, a Fort Myers station, where he was the host of a midday talk show.

In October 1994, he moved back to the East Coast and worked briefly this year as a sales manager for Boca Raton stations WWNN-AM, WSBR-AM and JUKE-FM. He quit when radiation treatments for cancer made it too difficult to work, Worthing said.

UPDATE: June 19, 1995|By DAVID BEARD Staff Writer

FORT LAUDERDALE - — Larry Kent, whose deep voice soothed South Florida radio listeners for parts of three decades, died on Saturday at Cleveland Clinic after a battle with gallbladder cancer. He was 56.

"Larry was a great reader, had a great way with words and a wonderful sense of humor. Nobody could tell a story like he could," said Craig Worthing, host of an evening talk show on WFTL-AM in Fort Lauderdale.

Larry worked at WALT and WLCY in 1965 before heading to Miami.