Former Rep. Mia Love of Utah, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, died Sunday at age 49.
“She was in her home surrounded by family,” family members announced in a social media post. ”In the midst of a celebration of her life and an avalanche of happy memories, Mia quietly slipped the bands of mortality and, as her words and vision always did, soared heavenward. We are thankful for the many good wishes, prayers and condolences.”
Love was diagnosed in 2022 with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer. She and her family had recently announced that the cancer was no longer responding to treatment. Her death came less than two weeks after she published a farewell message in the Deseret News.
