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LISTEN: The West Memorial Service

Bill Zeeble
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KERA News
Flag draped coffins inside Baylor's Ferrell Center.

As many as 10,000 people have crowded into the Ferrell Center at Baylor University in Waco for a memorial service honoring the first responders and residents of West, Texas, who died last week when the town's fertilizer plant exploded.

Rick Holter was KERA's vice president of news. He oversaw news coverage on all of KERA's platforms – radio, digital and television. Under his leadership, KERA News earned more than 200 local, regional and national awards, including the station's first two national Edward R. Murrow Awards. He and the KERA News staff were also part of NPR's Ebola-coverage team that won a George Foster Peabody Award, broadcasting's highest honor.