Jane Maury Denton, 81; wife of U.S. senator was advocate for prisoners of war
Jane Maury Denton, 81, the wife of former U.S. Sen. Jeremiah Denton Jr., died Thursday at a Norfolk, Va., hospital of complications from a heart attack, family members said.
The native of Mobile, Ala., helped organize the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia in the 1960s, after her husband, who was then a Navy pilot, was shot down and captured in 1965. He was held for nearly eight years in a North Vietnamese prison.
Her advocacy work was credited for the group’s efforts in obtaining humane treatment and the ultimate release of American prisoners of war.
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