Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, March 5, 1990                   TAG: 9003052261
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: AMERICUS, GA.                                 LENGTH: Short

GLORIA CARTER SPANN, SISTER OF FORMER PRESIDENT CARTER, DIES

Spann had been diagnosed in December as having pancreatic cancer, the same disease that killed her father, James Earl Carter; her sister, Ruth Carter Stapleton; and her other brother, Billy Carter.

Her mother, Lillian Carter, had breast cancer that had spread to other organs, including her pancreas, when she died in 1983.

Spann, who had been treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta in December, died about 1 a.m. at Sumter Regional Hospital in Americus, according to her husband, Walter Spann.

Spann was an avid motorcyclist and belonged to the Georgia Motorcycle Rights Organization. At the time her cancer was diagnosed, she said through a spokeswoman that she and her husband planned to ride their motorcycles to Florida for the weekend.