Emmy winning Hamilton native loses battle with cancer

Ross Senior High School graduate Molly Day Wrigley, 42, died last week after her two-and-a-half year battle with cancer.

Wrigley, after graduating from Ross, attended Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. After college she embarked on a successful career in television, where she ended up becoming an Emmy award winning producer at stations in Nashville and Jacksonville.

In 2005, Wrigley was named one of Nashville’s 25 Most Beautiful People. She was honored for her work with the Nashville Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

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Wrigley began her fight with cancer in June 2014. After months of extensive chemo and internal and external radiation, she was told she was in remission. But after her first pot-treatment checkup, it revealed that the cancer had returned.

Wrigley’s colleagues at WJAX in Jacksonville said she was “a constant light in the newsroom who loved her job and you could not help but be happier around her. She was a beautiful, loving soul whose infectious smile captured the hearts of many.”

Wrigley is survived by her husband, Steve, sister, Allison King and her father Garry Day.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Jane Day, sister, Lori Day, brother, Tyler Day and brother-in-law Scott Wrigley.

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