WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) - One of the hosts of "Romper Room" on KAKE has died. Family members tell us Marti Garlett died Sunday in Southern California. Romper Room started with "Miss Barbara" as the host.

CHICAGO — Of the many classic children’s shows on WGN-TV from back in the day, few were as long-running as “Romper Room” — preschoolers’ daily offering that ran from 1954 to 1960 (at WGN-TV’s Michigan ...

Jean Durkee was a schoolteacher, and happily so, in the late 1950s when her mother saw a newspaper advertisement for a host of a children’s TV show and suggested she apply. “You’ve got to be kidding ...