For 40 years, Del Ray John's warm, sonorous voice poured out of radios across Jackson Hole each morning.

For 35 of those years, he rose before the sun — often at 3:30 or 4 a.m. — and drove his car over Teton Pass from his home in Victor, Idaho, no matter the weather. Snow, ice, fog or shine, he made the trip so he could be on the air by 6 a.m.

In his earlier years in Jackson, the commute was shorter. Del Ray and his family lived above the radio station.

"It was a two-minute walk downstairs to the studio," said his son Justin John.

"They don't make very many true radio people," said Scott Anderson, who worked alongside Del Ray at Jackson Hole Radio for four decades. "Del Ray probably has interviewed every business owner over the past 40 years who was ever here, every nonprofit person, e

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