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Arizona native information anchor Ana Orsini “unexpectedly” died final week after struggling a mind aneurysm, her devastated colleagues introduced throughout a reside broadcast.
On Monday (December 16), anchors Tyler Butler and Carsyn Currier of Tucson-based CBS affiliate KOLD-TV 13 News shared information of their co-worker’s passing. “Our beloved pal and co-anchor Ana Orsini handed away unexpectedly final week,” Butler started the section.
Currier’s voice broke when she advised viewers that “we’re devastated by this loss,” as Butler tried to consolation Currier.
“We had the chance to work together with her on a regular basis. We do need you to know that what you noticed together with her on-air — the humorous, loopy individual she was — she was identical to that off-camera and moreso,” he continued.
The co-anchors defined that that they had worn pink colours for the published in honor of their colleague.
Currier then launched a video tribute, which compiled a few of Orsini’s most memorable moments with 13 News since she joined the crew in June 2023.
According to an announcement shared by the Arizona TV station, Orsini was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, and graduated from Texas A&M University in 2018. She started her profession that 12 months in Lubbock, Texas, the place she labored as an anchor and reporter. Orsini later labored as a morning and noon anchor in Medford, Oregon, for 3 years earlier than relocating to southern Arizona.
“Ana’s pals and coworkers keep in mind her as somebody with bottomless empathy who at all times stood up for ‘the little man,’” 13 News stated. “She was a smiling face most particularly for all her latest and youngest coworkers, and he or she is thought in all of the newsrooms the place she labored for taking them below her wing and being a powerful mentor for each work and life.
“Rescue animals had been her ardour, and if she wasn’t celebrating Fur Baby Friday, she’d be looking for a brand new residence for a cutie in want. If Ana came upon you really liked true crime, like she did, she would share the calendar she stored to trace the releases of all the brand new episodes of the most effective podcasts,” her co-workers continued.
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“Her favourite was True Crime Obsessed, and in the event you spent longer than 5 minutes with Ana with out listening to her favourite quote from it, ‘Let the ladies do the work,’ then one thing was severely unsuitable! She was a peanut-butter-M&M-loving, platform-Ugg-wearing, pink-or-purple-Stanley-toting ray of sunshine, even at 4:00 within the morning.”
Orsini’s household additionally shared an announcement, by which they hoped for the information anchor to be “remembered for the brilliant, sunny individual she was” and inspired viewers to donate to their native animal shelter in her reminiscence.
Meanwhile, Currier posted her personal tribute for her colleague and “finest pal” to Facebook on December 16. The information anchor included a number of pictures with Orsini, alongside a heartfelt tribute.
“While there isn’t sufficient time for me to really describe the unbelievable individual Ana Orsini was, there are some things I’d wish to say in remembrance of one in every of my finest pals,” Currier wrote. “Ana was not solely lovely, gifted, and hilarious, however she was in contrast to anybody I’ve ever met. To know Ana was to like her. She made everybody round her really feel so particular, heard and understood.
“Waking up in the midst of the night time to go to work is at all times difficult, however figuring out I used to be going to work with Ana made it that a lot simpler. Whether she was dancing across the set or making us all snort, on a regular basis with Ana was an journey. Ana’s household was every little thing to her. She was a proud daughter, sister, and the most effective canine mother to her child boy, Harley. She was an advocate for animals, girls’s rights, and one heck of a pal.
“Time might go, however my reminiscences of Ana won’t ever fade. I really like you perpetually, Ana. You’ll at all times be the Bratz Doll to my Barbie Doll. Rest in Peace, sister. I promise to maintain residing absolutely for YOU,” Currier concluded.
