This is very sad. Who knew she was even sick? My Mother used to say that my Grandmother died of a broken heart after losing her nine year old to sudden death from meningitis and for years, I truly thought my Grandmother's heart broke in two. And just last night, I saw a TV segment on this subject. Grief, trauma, extreme stress can bring on symptoms that mimic a heart attack and actually show up on an MRI. It is temporary damage to the heart. The loss of child is a big trigger event. If this is true with the heart, can it not also be true for the body's immune system? I believe so as after my Mother's death, I seemed to be susceptible to every little germ that came close to me. Is this what happened to Patsy? What she was put through, first losing her beloved child and then the media and legal circus that followed. God rest her soul.
JonBenet Ramsey's mother dies of cancer
Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:18am ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Patsy Ramsey, the mother of slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, died on Saturday from cancer in Atlanta, the family's attorney told CNN.Ramsey's husband, John, was at her side when she died at about 3:30 a.m., attorney L. Lin Wood told the cable network. Ramsey, 49, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1993, underwent treatment and lived cancer-free for nine years, Wood said. Three years ago she suffered a recurrence, he said.
JonBenet, 6, was found beaten and strangled in the family's Boulder, Colorado, home on December 26, 1996, in a case that remains unsolved. Her parents came under the Boulder police's "umbrella of suspicion," but a grand jury issued no indictments.
The slaying drew intense media coverage focusing on JonBenet's success in youth beauty pageants, the family's affluence and mysterious elements of the case, including a note that initially led police to believe the girl had been kidnapped.
"Over the last two, three years they have come to understand there's been a shift in public opinion about the death of JonBenet and people realize now that this family was very much victims of that murder and have suffered because of it in terms of the false accusations made against them," Wood said.
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