~ Joseph Clyde Ling 1920-2003 ~
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Clyde was a disk Jockey in New Jersey, his show was called the Clyde J. Show. Dick Clark was hosting a new show called American Bandstand, across the river in Philadelphia. I guess there is something in a name. It would be interesting to see his birth cert since on his marriage license he put his name down as Joseph Clyde Ling. His fathers middle name was Clyde and that may be why he was called Clyde Jr.
Journal Staff Report

Clyde Joseph Ling, a news anchor known in the 1960s as Clyde Jay at Albuquerque's KGGM-TV, now KRQE-TV, died Thursday in Arizona. He was 82.
Ling, who was born in Johnstown, Penn., began his radio career in that state and came to New Mexico for his health after a stay in Hollywood, said his stepson, Steven Jurgens-Ling.
Ling was a self-made man who had survived a difficult, Depression-era childhood. He was attracted to TV broadcasting while working as a messenger boy in Hollywood, Jurgens-Ling said.
As newscaster from 1960 through 1965, Ling supervised and directed KGGM's newscasts, filmed news stories and produced news specials.
"My first words were 'Coors' and 'Clyde Jay,'" said Jurgens-Ling, who watched KGGM as a young child. His mother married Ling when the boy was 7. Coors Brewing Co. was a TV sponsor at the time.
"He was very charming, very witty," Jurgens-Ling said. "He enjoyed the limelight."
Ling, who served in the Army during World War II, began his radio career in the Philadelphia area after his discharge. He was news director and a disc jockey from 1950 to 1957, according to the family, and he interviewed celebrities such as Elvis Presley and Peggy Lee.
Once in Albuquerque, he became involved in civic affairs, much as he had in Philadelphia. He was a member of the Lion's Club and once ran for a seat on the City Commission, as the governing body was then known.
Ling left the television station to work as an audiovisual specialist for the Department of Defense at Kirtland Air Force Base and headed the Motion Picture Production Division at Sandia National Laboratories' nuclear weapons school.

He worked as an audiovisual producer for the Army for the rest of his career, Jurgens-Ling said, and retired in 1985 at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
Ling is also survived by his wife, Phyllis, of Sierra Vista, Ariz.; three daughters, Judy Sifford, Barbara Davis and Leslie Polychrones; and seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Memorial services will be held Thursday evening at 7 at Gabaldon Memorial Chapel, 1000 Old Coors Road SW, Albuquerque, NM, with private interment at the Santa Fe National Cemetery in Santa Fe, NM.

Clyde and Jeannie were married on October 18, 1942, at 1207 N. Cherokee Avenue, Hollywood Ca., one block north of Santa Monica Boulevard just north of Lexington Avenue between Highlands and Cahuenga. Clyde was 21 and Jeannie 20. 1207 Cherokee was her residence. The marriage license shows Clyde residing at the Cinema Hotel (could not find in a Google search) Clyde worked at a gas station and Jeannie at Vega Aircraft (Rosie the Riviter perhaps). I wonder if Clyde and George worked at the same gas station. There is a photo of George, Uncle Bill Jansz and Uncle Bert Jansz at a gas station where george worked.

Clyde was married twice: