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By City News Service
Feb 15, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Pat Russell, a Los Angeles city councilwoman from 1969 to 1987 and the first woman to serve as president of the council, has died of cancer at the age of 97.
Russell died at her home on Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Times, which said Russell s son reported her death on Facebook.
“I adored her as Mom, but also as one of the most extraordinary persons I have ever known,” he wrote, the Times reported.
Pat Russell was born in Portland, Oregon, and earned a teaching credential from UCLA after receiving her bachelor s degree at the University of Washington.
Pat Russell, a Los Angeles city councilwoman from 1969 to 1987 and the first woman to serve as president of the council, has died of cancer at the age of 97, it.