Kitty Dukakis, the wife of former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, died on Friday, her family said.
The cause behind her death was complications from dementia, said her son John, according to The Washington Post.
Dukakis, 88, was Massachusetts’s first lady from 1975 to 1979 and again from 1983 to 1991 while her husband spent three terms as governor.
She publicly battled addiction and fought depression, publishing a memoir about her struggle with alcoholism after her husband’s loss in the 1988 presidential election.
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