Longtime Fox 13 reporter and Emmy award-winning journalist Tom Dees died Thursday in Olive Branch, Mississippi, according to his family. He was 57.
In early January, Dees, a 32-year veteran journalist in the Mid-South, was hospitalized and diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), a rare lung disease.KWAM’s Earle Farrell, a friend and former coworker of Dees, opened his show Thursday afternoon with TJ Cates to share memories of Dees on the “Earle Farrell 4Memphis Show.”
Farrell described Dees as an “extremely talented reporter who was able to capture the essence of every person he interviewed. That’s what made him special…to know him is to love him.”
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Please keep the Dees family in your thoughts and prayers. A GoFundMe that has raised over $32,000 was set up to help Dees.“Tom loved his wife Cathy and was incredibly proud of his three children: Amelia, Ally and Austin,” Fox 13 reports.
Tributes for Dees poured in on social media:
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