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State Senate leader's wife dies of cancer
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| Contributor | Eric |
| Last Edited | Eric Feb 09, 2005 07:25pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Star Tribune, The (Minneapolis - St. Paul) |
| News Date | Monday, January 24, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Avonelle Johnson, the wife of Minnesota's Senate majority leader, died early Monday of cancer in Willmar.
Johnson, 60, was a retired middle-school teacher who, in the political world, relished her husband's election campaigns, going door-to-door to seek votes for him.
State Sen. Dean Johnson, DFL-Willmar, had called a news conference last week at the State Capitol to tell Minnesotans that his wife, to whom he was married for 21 years, was failing.
"My wife is coming to the end of her life," he had said. "The doctors say that everything that can be done for her has been done."
The senator was at his wife's side when she died.
"Avonelle's five-year battle with cancer revealed much about her strength of character and the strong support system of family and friends who surrounded her until the end," Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Monday. "As a spouse, mother, grandmother and teacher, her life touched many who will miss her dearly."
Last year, the Johnsons talked about her cancer and the close of the contentious legislative session, but also about their blessings, wrote Star Tribune columnist Doug Grow. |
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