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Funeral services have been set to honor the life of Texas Public Radio's founder, Joe Gwathmey.
Gwathmey died from natural causes last week at the age of 84.
Services will be held Saturday, March 22, at 11 a.m. at Oak Meadow Methodist Church on the city's North Side.
Gwathmey was a part of a group that eventually evolved into the founding board of directors of National Public Radio.
He came to San Antonio in the late 1980s to bring NPR to the last large market in the county that did not have an NPR affiliate.
He arrived in the Alamo City in 1988 and became general manager of classical KPAC-FM, and he worked with NPR to create KSTX-FM. He also guided a restructuring of the parent organizations licensed to operate KPAC and KSTX that resulted in the creation of a new nonprofit corporation which he named Texas Public Radio. Services will be held Saturday, March 22, at 11 a.m. at Oak Meadow Methodist Church on San Antonio's North Side.
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