GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Local TV legend Buck Matthews has died.
His family posted on social media that he passed away at 3 a.m. Monday.
He announced weather forecasts from the National Weather Service on WOOD-TV 8 for more than two decades. He interviewed guests on the "Buck Matthews Show" for years in the 1970s and '80s. He later worked for the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and wrote three books, including one titled "Getting Here: Thoughts, Stories, Poems and Recollections."
Buck Matthews was 97. His family says a memorial will be held after Easter.
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