Funnell, Mildred, 1901-1977.

Mildred Funnell (1901-1977) was an American broadcaster, on both radio and television, for over 25 years, most of which she spent at WTAM-Cleveland (now KYW). Of her longevity there, she once boasted she had "survived 7 managers, [and] three ownerships."

Born in 1901 in Honeyoye Falls, NY to a pastor father and housewife mother, Funnell would live in both Michigan and New York before her family finally settled in Norwalk, Ohio when she was nine years-old. After graduation from Norwalk High School, Funnell attended Syracuse University majoring in speech. After that, Funnell attended the Schuster Martin School of Drama in Cincinnati, the alma mater of such actors as Tyrone Power and Virginia Payne.

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