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Memorial Service for Maureen Reagan

Aired August 18, 2001 - 12:00   ET

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STEPHEN FRAZIER, CNN ANCHOR: In Sacramento, California, a memorial service today for Maureen Reagan. The daughter of the former President Reagan and actress Jane Wyman died earlier this month after a battle with skin cancer.

Sixty-year-old Maureen Reagan was remembered as a woman with an infectious smile, and for her work in the fight against Alzheimer' disease.

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DAVID HYDE PIERCE, ACTOR: Maureen took care of people. Took in the sense of taking charge, taking control, taking the reigns. And when she was given lemons in life, she did not make lemonade. She took the lemons and threw them back and said, oh, no you don't.

CHRISTIE WHITMAN, EPA ADMINISTRATOR: All of us who knew Maureen loved her. And I must say, America is a poorer and a duller place today because of her passing.

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: Maureen had many good causes, and she cave good service to them all. That is a testament to her generous heart, to her great capacity for love.

She possessed much of her father's extraordinary ability to communicate her beliefs and abiding passions. And she was in President Reagan's own words; fearless, energetic and surprising.

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FRAZIER: You can read more about Maureen Reagan's struggles and accomplishments, and also more about that memorial service on our web site.

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