Some sites are reporting the death of Don Barrett, based on a message today on LA Radio.com. Here's an article from RAMP:
This one is from RBR:
Remembering Don Barrett
• UPDATED: We were deeply saddened yesterday to learn that Don Barrett, whose LA Radio website was exhaustively dedicated to chronicling and preserving Southern California's rich radio history, has died after a battle with liver cancer. He would have celebrated his 82nd birthday this Friday...
ramp247.com
This one is from RBR:
Respected L.A. Radio Chronicler Don Barrett Dies | Radio & Television Business Report
For generations of Southern Californians, he's known as the brainchild behind the "Los Angeles Radio People" website, which kept an ongoing log of nearly every individual who worked at an AM or FM in the nation's No. 2 market by size between 1957 and 1997. Today, Don Barrett is being mourned by...
rbr.com