His voice was once heard by teens all around Wichita

His birth name was Terry Thaine Frazier.

But Wichita and much of central Kansas knew him as Roger Mundy, the KEYN radio personality whose nightly playlist was ever so cool from the 1960s through the 1980s and whose catch phrase over the airwaves was “this is Roger Mundy on a Tuesday till Wednesday.”

“When I was a teenager growing up and listening on the radio, he always had the perfect voice when we would be driving along,” Wichita listener Frank LaForge said with a chuckle. “I took him on dates. He was the perfect date partner.”

Mr. Frazier died at age 70 on June 28 – a Wednesday.

A memorial service was held Monday.

Mr. Frazier was born on June 21, 1947, in Smith Center. The first few years of his life, his family lived in Pawhuska, Okla. They moved to Wichita when he was 3.

He then grew up in the Westlink neighborhood and attended Dodge and Peterson elementary schools, Hadley Junior High and was a 1965 graduate of Wichita West High School.

Mr. Frazier attended Wichita State University for a few years before deciding to go into radio. He attended a Kansas City broadcasting school before moving to Wellington and working for the KLEY radio station.

He married his wife, Sue, in 1968.

His radio identity came from his best friend’s little brother, said Steve McIntosh of KEYN.

Dan Mundy’s little brother was Roger.

“His wife, Sue, I’ve known since sixth grade; we all ran around together in the Westlink area,” McIntosh said Monday. “We all went to West High.”

In the 1970s, almost every teenager in the Wichita metropolitan area listened to Mr. Frazier’s Mundy voice.

He was best known for singing the daily school lunch menu and for doing jingles before each song.

“He could set the jingle in the same key as the song so it made a nice transition,” Sue Frazier said.

Mr. Frazier also established the Christmas Crusade for Children, which raised money for children’s toys that Wichita police could then distribute during the holiday season.

“There was a story I did on the radio about a little girl that was caught shoplifting at the old David’s. She stole a kid’s bike for her brother. Terry was the program director and wanted to do something for kids like that,” McIntosh said.

The fundraiser was a hit. Mr. Frazier asked radio listeners to each donate $1.

“Although he didn’t belong to any civic organizations, he tried to respond to any need in the community,” said his sister Margene Ford.

And he was creative.

“He did a lot of innovative things in radio,” McIntosh said. “He was kind of a hippie with very long hair and a big beard who never wore a coat in the coldest weather. But there he would be riding his Suzuki motorcycle to work. He never got sick.”

His favorite song was “The Long and Winding Road” by the Beatles, followed by anything from the Moody Blues.

And he jokingly bragged about spending the night with Dolly Parton. Sort of.

“He met her at a reception, and she was beautiful and gracious and he enjoyed meeting her,” Sue Frazier said. “He was a lot of fun, and he loved to laugh.”

In later years, Mr. Frazier suffered from dementia.

Besides his wife, Mr. Frazier is survived by children Shalom Nickel and Aidrich; four grandchildren; parents Eugene and Elaine Frazier; sister, Margene Ford; and brothers Val, Russ and Rod Frazier.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 7901 W. 21st St., Wichita, KS 67205, or the Alzheimer’s Association, 1820 E. Douglas, Wichita, KS 67214.

This story was originally published July 3, 2017 at 10:03 PM with the headline "His voice was once heard by teens all around Wichita."