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August 7, 2006

LONGTIME ANNOUNCER OF COUGAR
FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL GAMES DIES

Mike Edmonds, 59, longtime announcer of the University of Houston football and basketball games, died recently of cancer.

A veteran Houston radio broadcaster, Edmonds announced UH games for 20 years from the early 1970s to the early 1990s.

He is survived by his wife, Geri Konigsberg; two daughters, Christi Edmonds of Pasadena and Sharon Bosley of Lorena; and two grandsons. The family has designated for memorials the University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center, 2800 S. MacGregor, Houston 77021, where Edmonds worked for years as a volunteer, or a church or charity of choice.

Francine Parker
fparker@central.uh.edu