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Mourning Milly The Washington Post, DC Wednesday, August 4, 2004; Page C03 Several hundred mourners showed up at Millicent Kondracke's funeral yesterday morning, filling St. Columba's Episcopal Church in Northwest Washington. The 64-year-old wife of Roll Call Executive Editor and Fox News Channel's Morton Kondracke died on July 22 of complications from the Parkinson's disease she was diagnosed with in 1988 -- a journey her husband chronicled in his 2001 book, "Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease." Actor Michael J. Fox, a Parkinson's sufferer who promotes outreach and research, addressed the crowd, which included White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, Fox News's Brit Hume, Kondracke's fellow "Beltway Boy" and Weekly Standard Executive Editor Fred Barnes, Standard editor and publisher Bill Kristol, The Post's Charles Krauthammer, Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.), and the Wall Street Journal's Al Hunt. According to attendees, Fox told the gatherers that having Parkinson's is worse than being hit by a bus. It's "like standing in the middle of the street, knowing the bus is coming and you can't move." What made Milly so different is "she decided to direct traffic." SOURCE: The Washington Post, DC - Wednesday, August 4, 2004; Page C03 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38137-2004Aug3.html * * * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn