Chattanooga radio and television legend Luther Masingill passed away after a brief illness on Monday morning. He was 92.

Known to generations of Chattanooga listeners as simply “Luther,” local radio and television personality Luther Masingill shared the news around the world and around Chattanooga, and was considered the patron saint of lost dogs.

Masingill was on the air for two catastrophic events in American history,  Pearl Harbor and September 11, with a career than spanned nearly 75 years.

Masingill was inducted into both the Tennessee and national Radio Halls of Fame and was still broadcasting on the WDEF-FM 92.3 morning show and the WDEF-TV midday news show.