Rex Humbard Passes & and his link to KAAY

Rex Humbard passed Friday.

Elvis Presley watched "his preacher" on Sundays, and Humbard officiated Presley's funeral service.

Humbard began a career in media at age 13, when he began broadcasting on KTHS radio in Arkansas, singing gospel songs and inviting listeners to hear his father preach. In the early 1940s, Humbard began a daily radio program.

There it is the link. KTHS was the call letters of the now KAAY. In those days it was licensed to Hot Springs. (read previous posts about the history of KAAY).

Humbard was the son of a minister and a member of the Humbard Family Singers. He was born on August 13, 1919 in Little Rock, Arkansas, and he grew up in Hot Springs, Arkansas. In April 2007, Humbard returned to Hot Springs to be inducted into the Arkansas Walk of Fame.