Former KARE anchor passes away after cancer battle

GLEN ELLEN, Calif. -- Former KARE 11 anchor Kirsten Lindquist passed away at her California home on Feb. 14 after battling pancreatic cancer.

According to her obituary in the Star Tribune, Lindquist grew up in California and Northern Virginia. After college, she worked at a CBS radio affiliate in Northern Virginia and later at the Associated Press Radio Network in Washington, D.C. where she covered politics. She left radio in 1980 to join CNN.

According to her LinkedIn page, Lindquist worked at the NBC affiliate in Minneapolis, then known as WUSA and later KARE, from 1985 to 1988.

When KARE caught up with her years later, she recalled being one of the first to anchor from the station's ice desk.

"It was really uncomfortable a lot of the time to be at an ice desk at 30 below."

After leaving news to work in marketing for several years, Lindquist moved back to her native California in 1998 where she and her mother formed a real estate team.

Outside of Lindquist's broad career, she enjoyed skiing hiking, camping and horseback riding.

"I think a lot of people in the news business are adrenaline junkies, and it's hard to get over that. I don't know if you ever do," she once told KARE.