Ex-Wife of Slain CIA Officer Dies of Cancer
Five weeks after CIA officer Johnny “Mike” Spann was killed in Afghanistan, his former wife died of cancer, leaving their two young daughters as orphans.
Kathryn “Cissy” King, who grew up in the northwest Alabama town of Guin, was buried in suburban Washington, D.C. She was 30.
King and Spann, a native of Winfield, divorced several years ago and both remarried. Their daughter Alison was 9 and Emily was 4 when their father was killed Nov. 25 during an uprising of Taliban prisoners in Afghanistan.
Spann also had a 7-month-old son with his second wife, Shannon.
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