February 21,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Fox News host Brenda Buttner and Ridgewood resident died after a battle with cancer at age 55. Buttner, was a mother of two daughters.
Brenda Buttner, was the host of Fox News Channel’s Bull and Bears, and she She also frequently contributed to Your World with Neil Cavuto.
Fox News reported that Buttner joined the network in 2000 after blazing a trail for female business reporters on CNBC. She also had served as a correspondent in Washington.
Buttner received numerous awards for her work, including a Cable Ace award in 1996 for best business programming (The Money Club)and a National Clarion award in 1990 for best news story. In addition, many of her personal finance articles have been published in popular publications such as The New York Times and Ladies’ Home Journal.
She was an honors graduate from Harvard University and spent two years as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford University, England.
That is a beautiful family and those girls need our prayers right now. They are remarkably brave but still so young to be without their mother.