YOUR CITY COLUMBUS :: LOCAL NEWSCASTER, HEATHER PICK DIES FROM A LENGTHY BATTLE WITH CANCER
POST by T Cole
FLYPAPER want to send our condolences to HEATHER PICKS family. Cancer is such a horrible disease, Hopefully doctors can soon one day find a cure.
Columbus newscaster Heather Pick died this morning after a lengthy battle with breast cancer.
Pick, a morning co-anchor for WBNS-TV (Channel 10), passed away at her Hilliard home with her husband and other family members at her side. She was 38.
“I’m devastated,” said Andrea Cambern, news anchor at Channel 10. “We all knew that the future was not bright, but it’s still such a shock and tragedy. She was our beacon, our little light in the newsroom. We all love her very much.”
Pick’s battle with the illness began with a diagnosis in 1999, when she worked as an anchorwoman at the NBC affiliate in Rockford, Ill. In 2004, two years into her life in Columbus, she learned that the cancer had not only returned but moved to her spine and pelvis.
Pick faced the setback with an “unbelievably” positive attitude, said Tom Griesdorn, Channel 10 general manager.
“If you met her on the street, in the newsroom, if you ran into her at lunch at Katzinger’s or wherever, you’d have never known she was dealing with the challenges she did on a daily basis,” Griesdorn said.
At home after the diagnosis, Pick focused on her blessings by enjoying her family, including daughter Julia, 7, and son Jack, 4. She often spent afternoons at the Columbus Zoo or in a park, walked several miles a day and gardened.
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