ORLANDO, Fla. — Pat Schroeder, a Colorado congresswoman, presidential candidate and longtime Central Florida resident, died Monday. She was 82.
Schroeder suffered a stroke and had been placed in hospice care at her home in Celebration, former Orange County Mayor Linda Chapin said. Her daughter, Jamie Cornish, confirmed her death Monday in an email to the New York Times.
“She was like a beacon,” said Susannah Randolph, a Democratic operative and one-time congressional candidate. “... When I was growing up in the ‘80s, she was my bedtime story. She was the woman I grew up understanding was the one fighting for all of us.”
