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Article: JIMMY STEWART REACHED OUT, TOUCHED OUR HEARTS ONE LAST TIME.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 6, 1997
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Byline: Paul South
Sometimes the passing of people known only to us through their movies or their words or their athletic prowess tugs hard at our hearts.
We grieve for them the way we would for a long-unseen relative of whom we carry a fond memory. It's not the heartbreak marking the loss of a parent or grandparent or child or old friend. But still, it bruises the soul.
So it was with Jimmy Stewart, who died last week at 89.
We knew him as the Virginia farmer who saw his family ripped apart by the Civil War in ``Shenandoah.'' We knew him as the honest congressman, Mr. Smith, who went to Washington. We knew him as Harvey's pal, the ...