Myra Kraft dies at the age of 68 years
July 20th, 2011 - 11:07 pm ICT by Aishwarya BhattFoxborough, July 20 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Myra Kraft has died at the age of 68 years after losing her battle to cancer. She was the wife of the New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Apart from being the better half of a famous personality, she had her own identity as well. She was a renowned philanthropist and was a member of numerous charitable organizations as well. With her demise, the charitable organization and the philanthropic community are going to face a void, that will take a long time to fill.
Her death was confirmed by a statement that was released by the NFL Team which stated that, “we are all heartbroken” and added that the philanthropic community has “suffered a great loss.”
Myra also used to look after the affairs of the Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation and apart from that she was also the president of the New England Patriots Charitable Foundation. These two organizations were responsible for helping millions of people in the US and Israel.
Vince Wilfork, who is the Patriots defensive linesman spoke about the sad loss on the popular social networking and micro blogging site Twitter. He tweeted that, “Sorry guys had to vent myra was a wonderful woman who my wife and I loved dearly”.
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