Former First Lady of Washington D.C. Effi Barry has died..

[Virginia Dare]

only 63 years old, she was always a very classy, beautiful and dignified woman..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/06/AR2007090601220.html?hpid=artslot


Effi Barry, 63, a regal first lady of Washington who endured her husband's very public sex and drug scandal during his tenure as mayor, died early this morning of leukemia at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis.

Ms. Barry, who most recently worked as an employee in the city health department, was married to former mayor Marion Barry for 12 years. They divorced in 1990, not long after he was captured on videotape smoking crack cocaine in a hotel room with an ex-model and begging her to have sex with him.