* Grant Turner; Longtime ‘Grand Ole Opry’ Announcer
Grant Turner, 79, “Grand Ole Opry” announcer for half a century. Turner also provided daily commentary on Nashville, Tenn., radio station WSM, where he worked for 47 years, and made radio commercials. In Nashville on Oct. 19 of a heart aneurysm just hours after announcing his final Opry broadcast.
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