If you grew up in the 1970s and 1980s in any of the cities in towns in the Evansville viewing market, weather caster Marcia Yockey must have been a part of your life. She was certainly a part of mine.
Newburgh Museum – Marcia Yockey Tribute
What I remember about watching her forecasts, in addition to how much fun (and, yes, informative) they were, I see her gigantic weather board and that big black marker she would use to illustrate the day’s weather. She had written temperatures and symbols all over that thing in preparation for her broadcast. Marcia was also able to drop the names of little towns we’d never heard of like, for example, Williston, North Dakota, which got a name-check here.
She was a blast, and she knew her stuff. And anyone in this area can tell you hers was a life worth celebrating. And that’s what the Newburgh Museum is planning at the end of September, a celebration of the life of one of this region’s most beloved icons. As a matter of fact, opportunities to celebrate her life seldom went unnoticed.
MARCIA’S 75th BIRTHDAY
From the video vault…this was taken at Marcia Yockey’s 75th birthday party in 1998. Her friend Kay Lant put the event together, and many of her former co-workers and other broadcasters and friends were in the audience. Marcia was the #1 weather forecaster in the Tri-State for 35 years, and retired from WFIE in 1988…