Remembering Kathi Goertzen

Watch: A celebration of Kathi's life, part 1

By KOMO Staff Published: Aug 19, 2012 at 4:35 PM PDT

Family, friends and co-workers gathered on Sunday to remember and celebrate the life of Kathi Goertzen.

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By KOMO Staff Published: Aug 13, 2012 at 4:37 PM PDT Last Updated: Aug 13, 2012 at 5:33 PM PDT

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By KOMO Staff Published: Aug 13, 2012 at 1:25 PM PDT Last Updated: Aug 13, 2012 at 4:51 PM PDT

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2011: Kathi talks about her ongoing treatment (Video)

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Published: Aug 13, 2012 at 1:28 PM PDT Last Updated: Aug 13, 2012 at 2:17 PM PDT

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Community gathers to celebrate life of Kathi Goertzen (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By KOMO Staff Published: Aug 19, 2012 at 3:51 PM PDT Last Updated: Aug 19, 2012 at 9:00 PM PDT

Memories were shared, many tears were shed - and yet there was laughter, too - as friends, family and the community came together Sunday to celebrate the life of Kathi Goertzen.

Remembering Kathi Goertzen

Watch: A celebration of Kathi's life, part 1 (Video)

By KOMO Staff Published: Aug 19, 2012 at 4:35 PM PDT

Family, friends and co-workers gathered on Sunday to remember and celebrate the life of Kathi Goertzen.

Remembering Kathi Goertzen

Watch: A celebration of Kathi's life, part 2 (Video)

By KOMO Staff Published: Aug 19, 2012 at 4:48 PM PDT Last Updated: Aug 19, 2012 at 5:11 PM PDT

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WSU to name building in honor of Kathi Goertzen (Photo Gallery)

By KOMO Staff Published: Mar 22, 2013 at 11:59 AM PDT

Washington State University announced Friday that it will be naming a building at The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication in honor of KOMO 4 News anchor Kathi Goertzen.

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Remembering Kathi Goertzen To the KOMO viewers: Thank you from the bottom of our hearts

By Holly Gauntt, News Director Published: Aug 21, 2012 at 7:40 PM PDT

I don’t know that any of us at KOMO can even begin to express how much you have meant to us in the last several days. Kathi’s death struck us to our core. Our hearts have been breaking.

Remembering Kathi Goertzen Kathi Goertzen's legacy lives on in her foundation (Video)

By Denise Whitaker Published: Aug 15, 2012 at 4:44 PM PDT

Brave, strong and courageous. Kathi Goertzen was all that and more in her fight against brain tumors.

Remembering Kathi Goertzen Kathi's family visits memorial at Fisher Plaza (Video)

By KOMO Staff Published: Aug 14, 2012 at 7:55 PM PDT

Remembering Kathi Goertzen Watch the tribute: Remembering Kathi Goertzen (Video)

By KOMO Staff Published: Aug 14, 2012 at 12:12 AM PDT Last Updated: Aug 15, 2012 at 10:29 AM PDT

Remembering Kathi Goertzen Steve Pool: A piece of the fabric of my life is gone (Video)

By Steve Pool Published: Aug 13, 2012 at 3:55 PM PDT Last Updated: Aug 13, 2012 at 5:51 PM PDT

Today a piece of the fabric of my life is gone. Even though I’m putting this in words they can in no way come close to expressing the depth of the loss of one of my best friends, Kathi Goertzen.

Remembering Kathi Goertzen Kathi was the heart and soul of our news team (Video)

By Dan Lewis Published: Aug 13, 2012 at 1:22 PM PDT Last Updated: Aug 13, 2012 at 2:57 PM PDT

It was the summer of 1987 and little did I know when I came to KOMO Television that I would be meeting one of the most important people in my life - a woman I would admire on the news set and off. A true professional and a role model for me - everyone else in the newsroom - and the entire Western Washington community.

Remembering Kathi Goertzen Remembering Kathi with voice of daughter Alexa (Video)

By KOMO Staff Published: Aug 14, 2012 at 12:14 PM PDT Last Updated: Aug 14, 2012 at 12:49 PM PDT

Remembering Kathi Goertzen A journalist at the core (Video)

By Eric Johnson Published: Aug 13, 2012 at 1:24 PM PDT Last Updated: Aug 13, 2012 at 2:57 PM PDT

If you didn't know better, you'd say she was the luckiest person you ever met. She was born into a wonderful family. She was so pretty, so talented, so proud to be a mother to Alexa and Andrea, so in love with her husband Rick.

Remembering Kathi Goertzen Kathi Goertzen dies after long battle with brain tumors

By Holly Gauntt, News Director Published: Aug 13, 2012 at 1:21 PM PDT Last Updated: Aug 13, 2012 at 1:40 PM PDT

Our co-worker, our angel, our precious friend, Kathi Goertzen, died today, surrounded by her loving family. The long fight against the tumors that have ravaged her brain is over. She is at peace now, comfortable and surrounded by all that is good.

Remembering Kathi Goertzen Diane Sawyer: Kathi defined what it was to be an anchor (Video)

Published: Aug 13, 2012 at 6:36 PM PDT

Remembering Kathi Goertzen Kathi challenged us to be better

By Jacci Lewis Published: Aug 13, 2012 at 4:51 PM PDT

It is often said you can judge a person's character by how they treat children and younger adults. By that measure, Kathi Goertzen was the best of them.

Remembering Kathi Goertzen Jean Enersen: Everyone loved Kathi (Video)

Published: Aug 13, 2012 at 5:24 PM PDT

Remembering Kathi Goertzen Steve Raible: Kathi was a great news person (Video)

Published: Aug 13, 2012 at 4:05 PM PDT

Remembering Kathi Goertzen WSU's Glenn Johnson: Kathi was a fighter right to the end (Video)

By KOMO Staff Published: Aug 13, 2012 at 4:12 PM PDT

WSU Professor Glenn Johnson remembered Kathi's positive outlook on life and said she was a fighter right to the end.

Remembering Kathi Goertzen 'Thank you, Kathi, for giving me courage'

By Rose Egge Published: Aug 13, 2012 at 4:07 PM PDT

I very clearly remember my first day working at KOMO News. I was incredibly nervous. Coming from a neighborhood newspaper to a regional television station to start on a new web project, I had a lot to be anxious about. I felt out of place, disoriented and in awe of the talent around me.

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