Peeti Greene, a pioneering radio personality in Saginaw, passed away Tuesday at age 80 in Grand Blanc at Ascension Genesys Hospital.
Greene helped put WWWS-FM 107, 3-Soul, on the map during the 1980s as a local black-oriented listening alternative.
She hosted a radio talk format that nowadays is followed by Joyce Harvin via the Saginaw NAACP’s “Community Connections,” airing at 5 p.m. Sundays on KISS 107, 3-Soul’s subsequent moniker under corporate ownership.
Harvin recalls the two as childhood playmates at the old Civitan Center on Sixth and Wadsworth, never dreaming they would follow similar career paths. During Peeti’s main years on the Saginaw airways before the millennium, Joyce had relocated to Atlanta.
“We were not together because we were at the station during different stages,” Harvin says, “but I always looked at her as a colleague. It was an historic setting and everyone always got along.
“Peeti was an excellent interviewer, thorough and also funny at times, sensitive on all topics. She was Peeti and will always be remembered. She was a sweet person.”
As of Thursday morning, arrangements remained pending through Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home in Flint.
