INDIANAPOLIS – The Indianapolis community said their final goodbyes to TV legend and longtime RTV6 anchor Howard Caldwell Friday.
Services for Caldwell took place at Castleton United Methodist Church and was packed with people whose lives he impacted personally and professionally. Caldwell died Monday at the age of 92.
“He was a man that everybody trusted,” said longtime journalist for RTV6 Barbara Boyd. “I mean, if Howard said it, it had to be true. That's what he meant to the community. He was a man you could trust. If he said it, it meant something.”
Caldwell joined WFBM, a precursor to WRTV, in May of 1959.
He retired from WRTV full time in May 1994, but continued to contribute for a couple more years with occasional reports.
“The community itself was better because of what Howard brought to the city of Indianapolis, and what he believed in the city, and what he gave to the city and how much of a cheerleader he was in all different ways,” said former RTV6 anchor Clyde Lee.
Caldwell was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame.
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