PASSINGS
Times Staff and Wire Reports
Martha B. Watson Stern, the owner of a Texas kennel where President Obama’s dog, Bo, was bred, died of kidney failure July 21 at a hospital in Charlottesville, Va., where she and her husband, Art, had a summer home. Stern, who drew attention in April as breeder of the Portuguese water dog that became the Obama family’s pet, was 72.
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