Former announcer Bill Currie dies at 83

Posted Feb 13, 2008

Bill Currie, known as the "Mouth of the South" during his days as a popular radio and television personality in North Carolina, died "a Tar Heel fan to the core," his daughter said Tuesday. Margaret Currie Granger said her father, 83, died at 11:40 p.m. Pacific time Monday in an Olympia, Wash., hospital as the result of a brain hemorrhage. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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