Leah Siegel ESPN Producer Dies of Breast Cancer
filed in World News Today on Jul.27, 2010
July 26, 2010 on Monday; Leah Siegel ESPN producer had been resting peacefully in hospice care in late days. She died about 4:30 a.m. She was diagnosed on level 4 breast cancer in August 2008, not far after the birth of her 3rd child, Oliver. The 43-year-old award succeeding sports TV producer in Dallas for ESPN, began her career as journalism in 1989 at the Washington NBC affiliate WRC, where she handled local news.
In the same year, she moved to the NBC associate in Charlotte as a sports reporter, later joined ESPN in Dallas in 1996. She was a 1984 graduate of the private Market School in the District and received a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Maryland in 1989.
Leah Siegel ESPN was featured in a front-page story in The Dallas Morning News. The story of her battle inspired thousands of strangers to write her. Over the past two years, nearly 50,000 visits were logged to her web page. Her marriage to Joe Drape, a New York Times sports reporter, ended in divorce. Besides her mother, of Washington, survivors include her husband of six years, Eric Loehr, and their three children, Teagan Loehr, Wyatt Loehr and Oliver Loehr, all of Dallas; and a brother, Michael Siegel of Washington.
Leah Siegel was described by her colleagues as a wisecracking journalist with some of the best sources within the Dallas Cowboys organization. She died of breast cancer at a hospital in Dallas. Leah Siegel ESPN producer was the daughter of former Washington Post reporter Myra MacPherson and the late Washington-based sports columnist Morris Siegel.
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