Bruce D. Whitehead

Bruce Davis Whitehead Jr., age 89, passed away December 18, 2018 in his Cottonwood Heights home. He was born May 14, 1929 to Bruce Sr. and W. Bernice Fuller Whitehead in his mother’s hometown of Statesville, North Carolina.
In September 1951, he began a six-month US Army basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He was assigned to Occupation Forces on Salzburg, Austria where he continued his broadcast career for 18 months with the Blue Danube Network of the Armed Forces Radio Service.
In September 1953, he separated from the Army and returned to Quincy, Illinois. He joined the radio and TV staffs of WTAD and KHQA-TV.
In 1957, he relocated to Boise, Idaho to work for KDOI Radio and TV.
He found himself in Salt Lake in 1960 working at KALL, KLUM KUTV for the next six years.
In 1969, he changed careers by joining the Salt Lake City advertising and public relations firm W.S. Adamson and Associates where he remained until his retirement in 2014. During this period, he provided a wide range of services for the PR Department of Kennecott Utah Copper and Kennecott operations in New Mexico and corporate New York headquarters.
Bruce and his wife Maria were married for 51 years until her passing in 2013. Their daughter, Laurie Anne, cared for both her mother and father with love and compassion until the passing of Bruce.
Bruce is survived by his son, Bryan Mark (Diana) of Lake Forest, Illinois and their two sons; his daughter, Laurie Anne (Daniel) Higgins of Salt Lake City, their son Daniel Jr. of Ione, California and two grandsons. Also, many colleagues, friends, and family members.
Bruce was cremated and requested no funeral services.