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POLITICS & THE NATION No words are ‘good enough’
Edwards remembered as a comforting mother, political sage at funeral BY MIKE BAKER
raleigh, n.c. — Elizabeth Ed- wards was recalled Saturday as an idealistic law student who challenged professors, a political sage who offered advice at every turn and a matriarch who com- forted her family even as she was dying of breast cancer. Edwards’s funeral drew hun-
dreds to Edenton Street United Methodist Church, where she once mourned her 16-year-old son, Wade, after he died in a car crash in 1996. She was to be buried next to him during a pri- vate ceremony. Speakers reflected on a multi-
faceted personality: Edwards, 61, was an intellectual who frequent- ed discount clothing stores such as T.J. Maxx, she was a fiery competitor without an ego, and she was a public figure who won the private confidence of virtually everyone she met. “There aren’t words that are
good enough,” said daughter Cate Edwards, 28, whose eulogy con- tained a passage from a letter her mother spent years preparing to leave to her children after shewas gone. “I’ve loved you in the bestways
I’ve known how,” the letter said. “All I ever really needed was you, your love, your presence, to make my life complete.” FormerNorth Carolina senator
John Edwards, her estranged husband, did not speak. The cou- ple had four children together. John Edwards sat alongside Cate, 12-year-old Emma Claire and 10- year-old Jack. Their oldest daughter talked of
how her mother comforted those around her as she lay dying — at one point barely able to speak — while she held her daughter and
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Former presidential candidate John Edwards and his children,EmmaClaire, far left, Jack and Cate leave Edenton StreetUnitedMethodist Church in Raleigh after funeral services for Elizabeth Edwards.
John’s hands, looking back and forth to each, repeating, “I’mOK. I’mOK.” “She was way more worried
about us than we were about her,” Cate Edwards said. She talked of her mother’s
strength and grace and also of her witty advice about everything from clothing (there are always fewer regrets wearing solids than patterns) to marriage (don’t settle for the first boy you ever meet). The memorial brought several
political figures, including Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.).
Among the people who gath-
ered on a nearby street hours before the funeral was Barbara Fields, a 65-year-old Raleigh resi- dent who never knew Edwards personally but was impressed by how she handled adversity. Fields, a 10-year breast cancer
survivor, said she found comfort in books and speeches by Ed- wards about the fear and sleep- less nights that come with fight- ing the illness. “She just carried herself with a
quiet dignity,” Fields said. Elizabeth Edwards was first
diagnosed with cancer in 2004, a day after the Kerry-Edwards tick- et lost to George W. Bush in that year’s presidential election. Doc- tors declared her cancer-free af- ter grueling treatments, but the disease returned in 2007. She died Dec. 7. Her last yearsweretumultuous
ones, made difficult by her hus- band’s affair and eventual admis- sion that he’d fathered a child with the mistress. John and Eliza- beth Edwards separated about a year ago.
Associated Press Madoff’s son found hanged two years after arrest Although Mark Mad-
BY COLLEEN LONG AND TOMHAYS
newyork—Disgraced financier Bernard L. Madoff’s eldest son hanged himself in his apartment Saturday, exactly two years after his father’s arrest in a multibil- lion-dollar Ponzi scheme that swindled thousands of investors of their life savings. Mark Madoff, 46, was found
hanging froma ceiling pipe in the living roomof his SoHo loft apart- ment as his 2-year-old son slept in a nearby bedroom, according to lawenforcement officials. Madoff,whoreportedhis father
to authorities, has never been criminally charged in the biggest investment fraud in U.S. history and has said he and his brother Andrew never knew of their fa- ther’s crimes.
off was not known to be facing arrest, he and oth- er relatives have re- mained under investiga- tion and been named in investor lawsuits accus- ing them of profiting fromthe scheme. “This is a terrible and
MarkMadoff
unnecessary tragedy,” Madoff’s lawyer,Martin Flumenbaum, said in awritten statement. “Markwas an innocent victim of his father’s monstrous crimewho succumbed to two years of unrelenting pres- sure from false accusations and innuendo.” A lawyer for Mark’s mother,
Ruth Madoff, said, “She’s heart- broken.” MarkMadoff’sbodywasdiscov-
ered — hanging from a black dog leash — after he sent an e-mail early Saturday morning to his
wife, Stephanie, saying that someone should check on their 2-year-old son, lawenforcementoffi- cials said, speaking onthe condition of anonymity because they weren’t au- thorized to speak publicly about thedeath. Madoff’swife,whowas
visiting Disney World in Florida with her 4-year-old daughter, sent her stepfather to the home. The toddlerwas foundunharmed. Bernard Madoff, 72, swindled
a long list of investors out of billions of dollars. He admitted to runninghis scheme for at least twodecades, cheating thousands of individuals, charities, celebri- ties and institutional investors. Losses are estimated at about $20 billion,making it the biggest investment fraud in U.S. history. Hewas arrested onDec. 11, 2008,
after confessing his crimes to his sons. Just days ago, a court-appoint-
ed trustee filed a lawsuit seeking to recover any money from the fraud scheme that had been paid to members of theMadoff family, including Mark Madoff ’s two young children. Calls to the FBI and U.S. Attor-
ney’s office were not immediately returned. Previously, spokesmen for the brothers had repeatedly denied that they had any knowl- edge of their father’s crimes. Bernard Madoff is serving a
150-year prison sentence inNorth Carolina. Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Traci Billingsley said Saturday she didn’t have spe- cific information on whether he had been informed of his son’s death or would be allowed to at- tenda service.
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