When former KDKA weatherman and host Jon Burnett and his family shared his diagnosis of suspected CTE back in February 2024, Jon did it because he wanted to help research into CTE at the National Sports Brain Bank at the University of Pittsburgh.

CTE, known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, is a brain disease believed to be caused by repeated head injuries, most commonly seen in football players, and is only diagnosable with an autopsy of the brain.

Now, months after Jon died in February of this year , there's an official diagnosis. Jon did have CTE, but there's a lot more to Jon's story.

KDKA's Kristine Sorensen visited Jon's widow, Debbie Burnett, at her home, along with their two children, Samantha Booth and Eric Burnett. They reminisced about how Jon was such a big personality

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