Kathi Goertzen

Actress

Date of birth : 04/30/1958

Date of death : 08/13/2012

City of birth : Seattle, Washington, USA

Kathi Goertzen was an accomplished reporter and news anchor at KOMO-TV in Seattle for 29 years. She graduated from Washington State University with a degree in Communications in 1980. she began work at KOMO-TV as a reporter, and in 1982 took over one of the evening news anchor positions. Goertzen covered a wide variety of news, and when the Berlin Wall fell, she was the first local TV news reporter to report live from the site in West Berlin. In 2005, Goertzen and co-anchor Dan Lewis became the longest-running network affiliate news team in the United States west of the Mississippi River. Goertzen became one of the most beloved and respected reporters in the state of Washington over 29 years as a KOMO news anchor. Beginning in 1998, Goertzen began suffering recurring bouts with meningioma, a non-cancerous tumor that affects the brain stem. She battled a number of recurrences of the tumor and passed away in 2012. She is survived by a husband and two daughters. A building in the Murrow Communications Center at Washington State University is named in her honor.