Annie Glenn, philanthropist and the widow of pioneering astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn, died at age 100 early on Tuesday at a Minnesota nursing home from complications of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, media reports said.
Retired astronaut and former U.S. Senator John Glenn and his wife Annie listen as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative 2012 in New York on September 24, 2012. REUTERS/Andrew Burton
She was born Anna Margaret Castor in 1920 and grew up in New Concord, Ohio, about 70 miles east of Columbus, where she met her future husband in junior high school, the Cleveland Dispatch said. Annie Glenn had wanted to become a teacher, but pursued music as she could sing without stuttering, news media reported.
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