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Ailing Former First Lady of D.C., Effi Barry, Dies

Photo by Fred Sweets/The Washington Post
EFFI BARRY, the former wife of former D.C. Mayor and current Ward 8 Council member Marion Barry, has died after a battle with leukemia. She was 63.

For more on D.C.'s "regal" first lady, who "endured her husband's very public sex and drug scandal during his tenure as mayor," as The Post's Joe Holley writes, click here.

File photo of the Barry family by Fred Sweets/The Washington Post

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