I agree with your sentiment with one small change.
It is always difficult to lose a parent, regardless of age. May God comfort the senator and family IN HER RETIREMENT.
As a mother, McCaskill may have planted the early seeds for her daughter’s involvement in politics. “At Halloween in 1960, Betty Anne taught her children to say ‘trick or treat and vote for JFK,’ as they went door-to-door asking for candy,” an obituary distributed by Sen. McCaskill’s campaign read.