Tanya Sumner, a former Indianapolis ABC affiliate WRTV news anchor, has died. She was 53. The journalist and politician was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of colon cancer in November 2022 following an emergency surgery.
WRTV reports that Sumner died in her home on May 24. “Time. Good health. Those are our only true commodities. Our only true currencies that matter,” Sumner wrote in her final post on Facebook.
Sumner spent 20 years as a television journalist, 10 of which she spent at WRTV, where she was known as Tanya Spencer before getting married.
The former Indianapolis, Indiana, news anchor left her post to pursue other dreams like running for local government and serving District Three on the Whitestown Town Council.
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