Bobbie Battista, a pioneering anchor who worked on CNN Headline News when the network first launched in 1981, has died. She was 67.

Battista had been living with cervical cancer for four years, before her death Tuesday morning.

“Bobbie was the consummate trooper in her struggle with cancer, she was courageous and fearless in her battle and thoughtful for all the others in her life even as she fought through the pain," Battista's husband John Brimelow said in a statement to EW. "My dear partner of 25 years of marriage has cut her earthly bonds and is now in peace.”