Illness and Death
Lewis had battled breast cancer for 12 years. Despite the fact that she had never smoked, doctors found lung cancer in 2005, and she died of an inoperable tumor on her lung on October 16, 2007. Kathleen McCree Lewis died at the age of 60, on the same day that her husband David Baker Lewis' mother, Dorothy Baker Lewis, died at age 92.
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