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Article: Jacqueline Onassis is dead Cancer claims her at age 64; children at side
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 20, 1994
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the former first lady who surmounted
awesome personal tragedies with instructive dignity and style, died
last night in her New York apartment of complications from cancer.
She was 64.
Mrs. Onassis died at 10:15 p.m., said a statement from her
longtime friend, Nancy Tuckerman. Her children were at her side, as
were her longtime companion Maurice Tempelsman and other family
members.
Mrs. Onassis suffered from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer that
afflicts the lymph system. Except for the most serious cases,
apparently including that of Mrs. Onassis, the cancer is often
treatable.
"More than any other woman of her time, she captivated our nation
and the world ...