An 82-year-stale woman in North Texas passed away just days after casting her first-ever poll in the 2018 midterm election,NBC-DFW reported.
Gracie Lou Phillips was surrounded by family members when she passed away early Monday morning, the family confirmed. She had been battling pneumonia and was transitioning to hospice care when she became one of the 4.8 million Texans to cast their vote early.
Phillips’ granddaughter Leslie Rene Moore described her grandmother to NBC-DFW last week as a “proud American” and “proud woman” whose family was her number one precedence throughout her life, and said it was her busy family life and misconceptions about voting that kept her away from the polls until last week,when Gracie Lou made the decision to exercise her civic duty.“She finally registered to vote for the first time in her life,” her other granddaughter Michelle Phillips said. “She kept telling everybody ‘Im voting, and I’m going to vote this year and my vote counts.'”Click here to continue and read more...
Source: inquisitr.com