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After Arizona news anchors at KOLD-TV 13 News, a CBS affiliate, announced their colleague Ana Orsini had died unexpectedly at 28, her cause of death has been revealed.
Arizona News Anchor Ana Orsini Dies Suddenly at 28
More information on Tucson news anchor Ana Orsini’s death has been revealed.
After the 28-year-old anchor at KOLD-TV 13 News, a CBS Arizona-based affiliate, tragically passed away, she was honored by colleagues, including one who confirmed she died of a brain aneurysm.
“It’s so horrible,” Tyler Butler, a fellow KOLD-TV 13 anchor, wrote in a Dec. 17 Facebook post, “so sudden.”
Still, Butler went on to honor Orsini’s life and the joy she brought to him and her other colleagues.
“Ana was a force of nature,” he continued. “I keep thinking about how at times, I'd make a self-deprecating joke and she'd snap ‘Hey! Don't talk about my friend like that!’ Her genuine care for everyone around her will be missed.”
One KOLD-TV 13 viewer also shared the way Orsini touched her audience.
“Everyone who got to know Ana has to be affected by her sudden passing,” the viewer wrote in a comment below Butler’s post. “Her humor and her spirit touched all who watched 13 News. Your chemistry with her was special and she will be greatly missed.”
In another attached obituary honoring their late friend and coworker—who had joined the station in June 2023—KOLD-TV 13’s team described Orsini as a person with “bottomless empathy” who always defended the “little guy.”
“She was a smiling face most especially for all her newest and youngest coworkers, and she is known in all the newsrooms where she worked for taking them under her wing and being a strong mentor for both work and life,” the statement continued. “She was a peanut-butter-M&M-loving, platform-Ugg-wearing, pink-or-purple-Stanley-toting ray of sunshine, even at 4:00 in the morning.”
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The Colorado native was also described as being extremely passionate about rescue animals, and had even launched a “Pet of the Day” segment at one of her former employers, a local Texas station, which helped find homes for animals at local shelters.
Orsini is survived by her two younger sisters, her parents and her rescue pup Harley. In a statement to KOLD-TV 13, her family requested that their loved one is remembered for the “bright, sunny person she was.”
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