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Quick updates: Jeff Baugh services, a retirement and a sale

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  Jeff Baugh with former KTLA reporter Mark Kono Services for Jeff Baugh , veteran airborne reporter most recently for KFI, will be held graveside at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills at 9 am on Thursday, June 29th, reports his colleague and friend Will Kohlschriber . We share some more photos and memories of Jeff Baugh: Jeff Baugh, Jennifer York , Denise Fondo Toni Guinyard (ABC7), Josh Haskell (ABC7), Tami Heide , Jeff Baugh (courtesy SAG-AFTRA) Donna Dower, Jeff Baugh (Courtesy KNX) How do you say farewell to a legend, a hero, a colleague, a friend, a mentor? The great Jeff Baugh died earlier this week, I can't even call him a "fellow" traffic reporter because he was a step above me but he set the standard of #excellence - from his stories of being a #Marine, to driving around in his green #mustang to traffic tips he relayed to me while he flew around as the #kfiinthesky, he will be greatly missed by me, my fellow traffic reporters & by my love @markkonosky5 . This is J

Remembering Jeff Baugh

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  (Ed. note: Don Barrett offers a marvelous tribute to Jeff Baugh on his website, laradio.com .) For 37 years, Jeff Baugh guided commuters back and forth from home to work, flying above the freeways of Southern California. On Wednesday morning, KFI News Director Chris Little informed his staff that Baugh had passed: Good morning, On Tuesday evening, June 6, we suffered a terrible and heartbreaking loss. KFI’s beloved airborne reporter, Jeff Baugh, died. For the past three weeks, Jeff had been undergoing chemo for lung cancer, and said things were going well though the chemo made him tired. He last flew on Friday. He didn’t feel well on Monday and checked into the hospital where he entered the ICU. Jeff was a classy, wonderful, consummate professional who just wanted to fly every day and, with a smile, tell commuters they were screwed. He also enjoyed sharing good traffic news. Jeff LOVED flying and he loved talking about traffic. He even wrote a book: “Stick With Us And We