Former 2nd Lady Joan Mondale dies at 83

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Joan Mondale dies at 83 - Associated Press - POLITICO.com

She was 2nd Lady of the USA from 1977-1981 and of course, the spouse of Democratic Presidential candidate Walter Mondale, in 1984.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Joan Mondale, who burnished a reputation as “Joan of Art” for her passionate advocacy for the arts while her husband was vice president and a U.S. ambassador, died Monday. She was 83.

Walter Mondale, sons Ted and William and other family members were by her side when she died, the family said in a statement released by their church. The family had announced Sunday that she had gone into hospice care, but declined to discuss her illness...

...Joan Mondale would later take her cultural zeal overseas when her husband was named U.S. ambassador to Japan during President Bill Clinton’s administration.

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar first met Joan Mondale while working as an intern for the vice president in 1980. Klobuchar still has two coffee mugs on her kitchen table that were made by Joan.

“She was always down to earth,” Klobuchar said Monday. “She was just as happy going out to rural farms in Elmore (Minn.) as she was mixing it up at fancy receptions at the ambassador’s residence in Japan.”

During her husband’s ambassadorship, she relished the chance to study Japanese art and give dignitaries clay pots she made as gifts. In her 1972 book, “Politics in Art,” Joan Mondale framed a connection between the two.

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Joan Mondale Dead: Wife Of Former Vice President Dies At 83

"Joan was greatly loved by many. We will miss her dearly," the former vice president said in a written statement.

An arts lover and an avid potter, Joan Mondale was given a grand platform to promote the arts when Walter, then a Democratic senator, was elected Jimmy Carter's vice president in 1976.

Carter named her honorary chairwoman of the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities, and in that role she frequently traveled to museums, theaters and artist studios on the administration's behalf. She lobbied Congress and states to boost public arts programs and funding...


...A service is scheduled for Saturday at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis.

RIP, Mrs. Mondale.

 

[Geaux4it]

Fair winds and following seas...

Your work here is done

-Geaux

 

[Politico]

Joan Miller also died today.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Fair winds and following seas...

Your work here is done

-Geaux

That was beautiful.

 

[rightwinger]

To be honest...I barely remember her

 

[Statistikhengst]

To be honest...I barely remember her

I do. She was an elegant and very well-spoken lady. She and FLOTUS Rosalyn Carter got along extremely well.

I met her at a Mondale Rally outside of Dayton, OH in 1984. She was a truly warm, easy, outgoing person.