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Mourning and the Pandemic

WVIK News

On Midwest Week, one of the many ways the pandemic has changed our lives is funerals and how we honor the dead.

Herb Trix's guest is John Marx, columnist for the Quad City Times and Dispatch-Argus.

You can also hear Midwest Week on Fridays on WVIK at 6:20 pm during All Things Considered.

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.