Saturday, August 30, 2008
CLEVELAND —
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will be among the speakers at a memorial service Saturday for the late U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of the Cleveland area.The 58-year-old Tubbs Jones died Aug. 20 from a brain hemorrhage caused by a ruptured aneurysm. She was the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress.
A public viewing is scheduled before the memorial service at Public Hall in downtown Cleveland.
U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York also is expected to speak at the service.
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