When you spend more than 14 years in the radio broadcasting business, you get the chance to work with a lot of great people. For me, one of those people was Larry Henry. Larry passed away last Friday.

I was the morning news anchor at WCSI in Columbus, Indiana for about four years. For roughly three of those years, the morning show host was Larry Henry. Sometimes, there’s a special kind of chemistry that happens when two people talk on the radio—and Larry and I had that. Every morning, we’d spend about ten minutes just having a conversation, and it clicked. Larry was especially proud when an ARB rating sweep showed that our program was not only number one in Bartholomew County, but number one across three counties in the area.

Larry was a top-notch professional. I truly enjoyed working with him as a team, and I valued our friendship—even though we hadn’t been in touch in recent years. He left WCSI to join the WIBC sports broadcasting team and eventually moved to Detroit, where he made his mark doing play-by-play for University of Michigan basketball and covering a wide range of other sporting events.

Later in life, Larry moved to Madison, Indiana, entering semi-retirement.

But Larry was perhaps best known for his passion for auto racing. He covered the month of May for WCSI, which caught the attention of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network. On race day, he reported from the backstretch and Turn 3—where he made one of his most memorable calls: the moment Emerson Fittipaldi and Al Unser Jr. touched wheels in Turn 3, sending Unser into the wall and paving the way for Fittipaldi’s first Indy 500 win.

I have such great memories of working with Larry and calling him a friend. We lost a truly special person when Larry passed away on April 11. He was 73.

According to his online obituary, Larry requested cremation, and a celebration of life will be scheduled at a later date.

Thanks for the memories, Larry. I’ll never forget you.