Annie Glenn, widow of former astronaut John Glenn, dies at 100 of complications from COVID-19

[Norbert]

COLUMBUS, Ohio – She lived her entire life with a man who became universally revered, but to millions across the globe, Annie Glenn was her own kind of hero.

The wife of John Glenn, the former astronaut and U.S. senator, died early Tuesday at a nursing home near family in St. Paul, Minnesota, of complications from COVID-19. She was 100.

John Glenn died in 2016 at age 95 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. At the time of his death, the two had been married 73 years.

“This is a very sad day for all Ohioans,” Gov. Mike DeWine told The Dispatch, part of the USA TODAY Network, on Tuesday morning as he prepared to sign an order to fly flags at half-staff until Annie Glenn’s service...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/19/annie-glenn-widow-astronaut-us-senator-john-glenn-dies-100/5219556002/

[sheshe2]

1. Rest in peace, Annie.

[Aristus]

2. A great lady married to a great man.

Both of them made me proud to be an American.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. Just read this about John and it makes me admire him even more...

Glenn was an ordained elder of the Presbyterian Church. His religious faith began before he became an astronaut, and was reinforced after he traveled in space. "To look out at this kind of creation and not believe in God is to me impossible," said Glenn after his second (and final) space voyage. He saw no contradiction between belief in God and the knowledge that evolution is "a fact" and believed evolution should be taught in schools: "I don't see that I'm any less religious that I can appreciate the fact that science just records that we change with evolution and time, and that's a fact. It doesn't mean it's less wondrous and it doesn't mean that there can't be some power greater than any of us that has been behind and is behind whatever is going on."

[Norbert]

3. They were a terrific couple

My sadness is grounded in the fact that they are once again together.

[MoonRiver]

5. RIP amazing Annie

[bigtree]

6. jesus

...this is the face of the crisis. Folks we love dying prematurely, characterized by those dismissing deaths as 'part of life.'

Tragic.