Summers purchased the station in 1971 and ran WLOU until selling the station to the Johnson Publishing Company in 1982. He remained a management consultant there until 1988. Summers also helped co-found the Clothe-A-Child, Inc. nonprofit in 1977, which provided clothing for Louisville’s poor youth.
Summers died in June 1996 and was survived by his wife, Feren, his son, William IV, two daughters, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
William IV caught the leadership bug from his father, as he served as deputy mayor of Louisville and Chief Administrative Officer for the Louisville Metro Government, retiring in 2012. The 72-year-old was named to the Board of Trustees for the University of Louisville last month.
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