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Dan Rather Mourns Death of Wife Jean at Age 89


Friends of former CBS News anchor Dan Rather announced via social media that the journalist's wife, Jean Rather, died at age on Tuesday, November 26

Jean Rather, Dan’s wife, passed away at their home in Austin, Texas, early this morning,” friends of the veteran TV journalist, 93, wrote via his Facebook page on Tuesday, November 26. The post went on to include Jean’s obituary, which revealed that she died Tuesday following a cancer battle “surrounded by loving family and friends and her beautiful artwork.” “She was also the kind of wife who could meet presidents, kings and queens, draft dodgers, criminals, and corporate suits every day with equal ease and a stunning smile.”

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