William Holford, the husband of Elaine Marshall, passed away this weekend after a year long battle with cancer.
Elaine Marshall is NC's Secretary of State, and perhaps our leading prospective candidates against Senator Burr in 2010.
I hope that the rest of the DK community can join me in sending our condolences, thoughts, and prayers to Elaine, her friends and her family.
(As this news is from a couple of days ago, please let me know if this has already been diaried. I don't see anything from my searches. )
One thing that makes this news more difficult is that from the news report, Marshall was apparently widowed before. From the linked article, Marshall's first husband, Solomon Marshall, died of cancer in 1999.
Holford was also a widower before he and Marshall married. As I was widowed nearly 8 years ago, and am also now married to a widow, I think I understand a little about what Marshall is going through.
Emotions especially in early widowhood are powerful and difficult.
Even though it was known that Holford had cancer for the past year, it is too early to know what the effect on Marshall's plans will be. If you want to send a message to Elaine, one route is http://www.democratsenators.org/... from her exploratory committee website at http://www.elainemarshall.com/...
Let us give Marshall all of the personal support we can.