The sale proceedings and further license reviews took yet another unexpected turn when Richard Eaton died from cancer on June 1, 1981. Upon execution of his will, all of his radio and television stations passed from involuntary control over to Eaton's estate as the Suburban Trust Company, controlled by Suburban Bancorp of Maryland, as Eaton was the sole stockholder in United and all related subsidiaries. Due to Eaton's death, and amid questions over character appraisals for the rest of the United stations, coupled with concern over possible linkage to similar actions taken by the commission against RKO General, the FCC postponed a final license review for both WJMO and WLYT to the following June. The FCC set aside the administrative law judge's 1977 denial of renewal requests, and conditionally renewed the licenses for both stations on June 10, 1982, predicated on the findings for WOOK-FM. While administrative law judge Frederic Coufal and the FCC's Review Board both ruled to not renew WOOK-FM's license in favor of competing license applications, the commission overturned those rulings and renewed that station's license on September 11, 1985; the licenses for WJMO and WRQC (the former WLYT) would be granted a full renewal at the same time.