
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 6, 1990                   TAG: 9003062009
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: PLAINS, GA.                                 LENGTH: Short

GLORIA SPANN, JIMMY CARTER'S SISTER, DIES AT 63

Gloria Carter Spann, the last surviving sibling of former President Carter, died Monday of the type of cancer that killed three other family members. She was 63.

Spann had been diagnosed in December as having pancreatic cancer, which 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 lived on a farm southwest of Plains, died at Sumter Regional Hospital about 1 a.m. She was with the former president and his wife, Rosalynn, several close friends and her husband, Walter Spann.

Gloria Spann, an avid motorcyclist, will be buried today at a graveside service at Lebanon Cemetery in Plains following a funeral procession led by fellow motorcyclists. All but Stapleton are buried in the cemetery.

Besides her brother and husband, Spann is survived by a son, William C. Spann.

by CNB