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LA Times
Mary Elizabeth Cronkite, 89, the wife of former CBS television news anchorman Walter Cronkite, died Tuesday at their New York City apartment, said Julie Sukman, the newsman’s assistant. She was diagnosed with spinal cancer last week.

Known as Betsy Cronkite, she was working as a newspaper columnist in Kansas City, Mo., when she met her future husband, who was working at a local radio station. They were married March 30, 1940. She worked for the Kansas City-based Hallmark company during World War II. At the end of the war, she joined her husband in Brussels and later accompanied him to Moscow, where he worked for two years as a correspondent for United Press.

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