Never mentioned in the show, but she was likely Aunt Flo's twin sister...
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Newsgroups: alt.obituaries Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 10:25:04 -0800 (PST) Subject: Ruth Ashton Taylor, 101, TV/radio newscaster From: Lenona <[email protected]>
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ruth-ashton-taylor-dead-pioneering-female-newscaster-1235787124/ Ruth Ashton Taylor, Pioneering Female Newscaster and Reporter, Dies at 101 She got her start alongside Edward R. Murrow at CBS News in New York, then = made history at KNXT-TV in Los Angeles. By Mike Barnes Ruth Ashton Taylor, the trailblazing journalist who was the first female T= V reporter on the West Coast and an inspiration to generations of women cov= ering serious news, has died. She was 101. Ashton Taylor died Thursday in San Rafael, California, her daughter Laurel = Conklin told The Hollywood Reporter. After getting her start at CBS Radio alongside Edward R. Murrow in the 1940= s, Ashton Taylor returned to her native Los Angeles and, in 1951, became th= e first woman on the West Coast to work in television news when she took a = job with KNXT-TV (now KCBS).=20 Ashton Taylor exited in 1958 to work as a college public information offic= er but came back to the station in 1962 to join a program produced by TV pe= rsonality Ralph Story and to co-host The Ruth and Pat Show on the radio wit= h comedian Pat Buttram (Mr. Haney on Green Acres) for about a year. Ashton Taylor turned exclusively to television in 1966 as a general assignm= ent reporter and as co-host of a weekend news interview show. She retired i= n 1989 but continued as an occasional contributor, covering stories in the = Sacramento area into her 70s. =E2=80=9CI remember how she was always fighting to break the then-conventio= nal role of every female reporter: to cover the =E2=80=98women=E2=80=99s an= gle=E2=80=99 for every story,=E2=80=9D her former CBS colleague Joe Saltzma= n, now a professor at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism= , wrote on Facebook. =E2=80=9CShe won the fight and became one of the best = broadcast reporters in local news history.=E2=80=9D Ashton Taylor received the Governors Award for Lifetime Achievement from th= e Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1982 and a star on the Hollywood= Walk of Fame in 1990. Ruth Ashton was born in Los Angeles on April 20, 1922. She graduated from L= ong Beach Polytechnic High School and Scripps College in Claremont, Califor= nia, then earned her master=E2=80=99s degree from the Columbia Journalism S= chool in 1944. She quickly landed a job as a news writer at CBS Radio alongside original m= embers of a documentary unit led by the legendary Murrow and made it on the= air in 1949 despite the fact that management, she said, =E2=80=9Cjust didn= =E2=80=99t like those squeaky voices.=E2=80=9D One of her favorite interviews, she noted, was with Albert Einstein, J. Rob= ert Oppenheimer and Glenn Seaborg for a piece on atomic science.=20 Ashton Taylor was married twice; her second husband was a colleague, camera= operator Jack Taylor, whom she wed in 1968. Survivors include her daughter= s, Laurel and Susan; her grandson, Damon; and her great-grandson, Demare.
