Betty Flood, 83, Cut a Path for Women at State Capitol

 

By Casey Seiler

Betty Flood, a trailblazing Capitol correspondent whose work reached from Gov. Averill Harriman’s administration to this month, died Tuesday at Memorial Hospital in Albany. She was 83.

Flood — whose married named was Elizabeth Flood Morrow — operated Cuyler News Service, an independent operation that worked out of a small office on the Capitol’s third floor, and focused on providing stories to the financial media. (It’s located between the two offices occupied by the Times Union.)

She continued to work well past her 80th birthday, and regularly wedged her diminutive frame into the tight-packed Capitol Q&As referred to as “gaggles,” armed with a bulky tape recorder from the pre-digital age. In April, she was among the reporters in the press pen at Donald Trump’s rally at the Times Union Center in Albany. She estimated to this reporter that it was the 13th or 14th presidential campaign she had covered.

Flood, who had grown increasingly frail in recent months, was taken to the hospital on Sunday after suffering a fall at her home in Loudonville. She went into surgery on Monday and never regained consciousness. 

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Source: timesunion.com (via The Empire Report)