Former US first lady Nancy Reagan died Sunday at age 94, a spokeswoman for the Reagan Presidential Library and Foundation in Simi Valley, California said.
Congestive heart failure was the cause of death, spokeswoman Joanne Drake said.
Her marriage to Ronald Reagan lasted 52 years until his death in 2004.
A former actress, she was Reagan’s closest adviser and fierce protector on his journey from actor to governor of California to president of the United States.
She rushed to his side after he was shot in 1981 by a would-be assassin, and later endured his nearly decade-long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
In recent years she broke with fellow Republicans in backing stem cell research as a way to possibly find a cure for Alzheimer’s.
Nancy Reagan was great lady. She was loyal to her husband and deeply cared about him. She always stood by him in good & b times. I think she stood tall among all the first ladies who proceeded her. She was Reagan's confident and adviser.
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