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Michele Marsh in the WCBS-TV newsroom in 1980. Among a group of women who swept into anchor roles in New York, she was the youngest.
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Michele Marsh
Died on October 17, 2017 at age 63
Ms. Marsh was an Emmy Award-winning newscaster and anchor on nightly programs on the CBS and NBC flagship stations in New York City for more than two decades.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.