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WTLC Radio has lost of the legendary members of our WTLC Family.
Delores “Sugar” Poindexter died September 15, 2009 at the age of 77 after a valiant fight against colon cancer.
Delores “Sugar” Poindexter, or Sugar as we all called her, helped make WTLC the institution it has been these 41 years.
She began her radio career in 1970, coming to the station from the world of gospel music.
Sugar became the first African-American woman DJ in Indianapolis broadcasting, and one of the few women of any race on the airwaves at that time.
She began on WTLC on Sunday mornings. Her knowledge of gospel music and its singers and performers, her knowledge of our community and her pleasant, personable personality brought a legion of listeners to WTLC. After a few years, her Sunday morning program reached Number One and stayed there.
After the passing of the legendary Rev. Mozel Sanders in 1988, Sugar assumed responsibility for WTLC’s weekday early morning gospel program and took it to the top.
When WTLC-AM was launched in September 1992, Sugar expanded her morning show to a full four hours on AM helping create a new WTLC tradition on AM.
Sugar’s on air efforts were bolstered by her ministering to help others. She broadcast regular appeals to help the needy, those who lost their homes to due fire, those who were in distress. She and other WTLC personalities would regularly visit the Indiana Women’s’ Prison minister to them.
On Thanksgiving and Christmas, Sugar broadcast live from the Marion County Jail, accompanied by many of the city’s leading gospel singers and performers.
Besides her radio career, Delores “Sugar” Poindexter was also a major force in gospel music.
She started singing, with her melodic soprano voice with the 17th Street Chorale, Gospel Quintet of the 17th Street Baptist Church and was a mainstay in the 17th Street Baptist Church Choir, which later became Christ Missionary Baptist Church.
Sugar was a member of the Choral Union of gospel legend Thomas Dorsey’s National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses. There, Sugar sang with the pioneers of gospel music: Sally Martin Singers, Roberta Martin Singers, Beatrice Brown Singers, Ruth Beck Singers and the James Cleveland Singers.
For several decades, Sugar was a loyal member of the Gospel Music Workshop of America, where she chaired the Back Stage Committee at the group’s annual conventions and meetings.
Along with Al “The Bishop” Hobbs, Sugar helped found the Gospel Announcers Guild of Indianapolis, which brought together the city’s gospel announcers. Through her friendships with the Rev. James Cleveland and other gospel greats, Sugar was able to get the Gospel Announcers Guild incorporated as a part of the Gospel Music Workshop of America.
Sugar was then elected Vice Chairperson of the Gospel Announcers Guild of the Gospel Music Workshop of America.
Sugar was not only a longtime member of Christ Missionary Baptist Church, but for the past several years, she was a beloved and faithful member of Universal Church of Truth Worldwide Ministries.
In April 2009, Sugar was diagnosed with inoperable Colon Cancer. And this past July 12th, the community and nation came together in a public tribute to Delores “Sugar” Poindexter's years of service to her God, her community and her love of broadcasting and gospel music.
And in late July, despite her illness, Delores “Sugar” Poindexter attended the annual Gospel Music Workshop of America annual convention in Cincinnati where she was able to see her gospel music and gospel radio colleagues one last time.
Delores “Sugar” Poindexter was a friend to all. Respected by the big and the small.
Arrangements are incomplete for Delores “Sugar” Poindexter. Check back here later for details.
The WTLC and Radio One Family and those in Indianapolis and Central Indiana who loved her, express our deepest sympathies to the family of Delores “Sugar” Poindexter.
We thank her family for sharing their Sugar with all of us.
And we know she is in a better place today with the God she loved and served.

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