NEW YORK (CNN) -- Veteran newsman Peter Jennings was remembered Monday as an outstanding journalist, a hard worker and "a man of conscience and integrity."

The longtime anchor of ABC "World News Tonight" died Sunday, some four months after he announced on the air that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer.

Jennings was 67.

His presence in our lives has already been missed since stepping down from the Evening News. It is a terrible tragedy that such a venerable life has been prematurely extinguished.

-janelane, somberly