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Pat Flynn, ‘Mother of Relay,’ dies at 80

Pat Flynn, one of the people instrumental to the founding of Relay for Life who was known as the “Mother of Relay,” has died. The 80-year-old Tacoma native suffered from kidney failure and had been on dialysis for the past four years before dying Saturday afternoon in hospice care, son Mark Flynn said Sunday afternoon. “It’s insane the reach this little old lady had,” Mark Flynn said.

 

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