Long Time KFIZ Radio Personality Joe Goeser Dies At 97

Long time KFIZ Radio personality Joe Goeser has passed away early September 14, 2022 at the age of 97.

KFIZ’s longest running employee, Goeser started at the station right out of high school in 1944 at the age of 18. He would go on to work at the station for parts of six decades.

In 9th grade, Goeser wrote in a paper that he wanted to work in radio and wanted to be “a big fish
in a small pond”.

Joe’s son Pete recalls Joe working different hours of the day and night.

Pete recalled Joe going in at 4 AM to work the morning show, then cover a sporting event at night and not get home until 1AM and go back in at 4 or 5 AM the next day to do it all over again.

Goeser developed and performed several characters over the years. The most famous being Josh Crunchmeyer. That show aired mid-days on Saturday and became so popular that people would schedule their lunch breaks around the show so they wouldn’t miss it.

Joe would receive offers to work at stations in bigger markets, but he never left his hometown of Fond du Lac.

Pete said Joe passed right at 5:05 AM, just in time to start his morning show in Heaven.

KFIZ wishes Joe’s friends and family our thoughts and prayers during this time.