From BBC News yesterday....
Reeve's widow dies of lung cancer
Dana Reeve campaigned in favour of stem cell researchDana Reeve, actress and widow of Superman actor Christopher Reeve, has died of lung cancer.
Reeve, 44, who led the Christopher Reeve Foundation, was diagnosed with the disease in August 2005.
She took over the organisation, which he founded, after his death. Reeve cared for her husband for nine years after he was paralysed in an accident.
Reeve, a non-smoker all her life, died on Monday
Former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said Reeve was "a model of tenacity and grace".
'Wonder Woman'
"Despite the adversity that she faced, Dana bravely met these challenges and was always an extremely devoted wife, mother and advocate. Dana was an inspiration to us and we will miss her," the Clintons said.
Senator Diane Feinstein said of Reeve: "I thought that after everything that she had gone through with Chris that she would have time to smell the flowers and be in the sun. But apparently that was not meant to be."
Actress Catherine Zeta Jones, a supporter of the foundation, said of Reeve recently: "She's better than Superwoman, she's Wonder Woman. Dana is like a saint to me."
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