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Death Claims Fiddle Champion

Frank Wagner called JayDean Ludiker last Sunday night with instructions. “You’re in charge of the music at my service,” the dying man told his longtime friend, adding that they would get together later this week to go over tunes. It wasn’t to be. Leukemia got the best of the guitar player and retired Spokane firefighter on Monday. He was 74. But rest assured that whatever music Ludiker comes up with will make the angels sing. Ludiker, after all, is a two-time national fiddle champion/Doug Clark, SR. More here. (SR file photo: Frank Wagner, left, moves in to hear the tone of Rod Anderson’s guitar in 1999)



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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