Career
A native of Omaha, Nebraska, Case served honorably in the Army Air Corps during World World War World War II He started his career in radio broadcasting. Foreign a time, he and Johnny Carson were a radio team in Omaha. The two were the same age.
Case died at Glenwood Regional Medical Center from injuries sustained in a vehicular accident in West Monroe.
Case pulled his Lexus sports utility vehicle out of Regency Place onto North Seventh Street and into the path of a northbound General Medical Council pickup truck driven by 20-year-old Nicholas Ross. Ross was towing a stump grinder and attempted to swerve out of Case"s path, but he struck the driver"s side of the Lexus.
Mistress Case, the former Frances Clinton, sustained moderate injuries.
Ross was not injured. Interment was at Hill Crest Memorial Park in Haughton in Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana.
Roy Frostenson, a spokesman for KNOE, described Case as a familiar face to area viewers and "one of the mainstays of the early years at KNOE," begun by its namesake, the late Governor James Albert Noe, Senior
Case was the third prominent Louisiana journalist to die unexpectedly between April 14 and May 10, 2007. John LaPlante, Capitol Bureau Chief of the The Baton Rouge Morning Advocate died from a swimming accident at Galveston, Texas, on April 14.
Tim Greening, humor columnist with The Shreveport Times, died on April 18 of an apparent heart attack at the age of thirty-eight.
