Friends and Fans Remember Patrick Mormann

By Katie Wiedemann, Reporter

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By Katie Wiedemann

Story Created: Nov 24, 2008 at 8:14 PM CST

Story Updated: Nov 25, 2008 at 2:55 AM CST

Dubuque - Friends in Dubuque are remembering a well-known radio personality who died in a car accident on Sunday.
31-year-old Patrick Mormann was driving the vehicle that left the road and rolled several times on Highway 151 about four miles north of Anamosa. The crash threw him from the driver's seat.

It's been a habit for Jan Feltes for the past 15 years.
She tunes into Kat FM on the radio while running her downtown Dubuque gift shop.
And every afternoon, there's been that familiar voice.

Feltes said, "He will be greatly missed, super guy."

For the past ten years Mormann worked at Radio Dubuque as the Assistant Programming Director, Music Director and afternoon radio personality.
Taking people like Feltes through the workday.

Mormann was also a producer and director for the Hawkeye Radio Network with Gary Dolphin.

Dolphin said, "He’d do anything for you, he was a very giving and caring guy and it figures at the time of his death he was helping people move some furniture."

Dolphin and Mormann spent last Saturday together, broadcasting the Hawkeye game from Minnesota. The plane ride back to Iowa is last time Dolphin would see the man he says was like a little brother to him.
Dolphin said, "You don't know from one minute to the next. We said our good-byes. We'll talk again Monday or Tuesday and discuss bowl plans. And less than 24 hours later he's gone."

Friends say the voice that made Patrick Mormann popular is now silent, but the spirit that made him a good friend is still loud and clear.

This is the second time in the past week Radio Dubuque has dealt with a death. Last week former KAT-FM morning show host, Ellie Neman died. Neman was 42.

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