The Clinton family has asked that donations be made in memory of Dorothy Howell Rodham to George Washington Hospital.
Mrs. Rodham, mother of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, died Tuesday at the George Washington Hospital. She was born in 1919 in Chicago, where she lived much of her life.
“She overcame abandonment and hardship as a young girl to become the remarkable woman she was -- a warm, generous and strong woman; an intellectual; a woman who told a great joke and always got the joke; an extraordinary friend and, most of all, a loving wife, mother and grandmother,” said the Clinton family in a statement.
Mrs. Rodham is survived by daughter and son-in-law Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Clinton; sons and daughters-in-law Hugh and Maria Rodham and Tony and Megan Rodham; and grandchildren Chelsea Clinton and her husband Marc Mezvinsky, and Zachary, Fiona and Simon Rodham.
In lieu of flowers, the family requested donations in Mrs. Rodham’s memory be made to George Washington Hospital, where they said she “received excellent care and made terrific friends over many years.” Mrs. Rodham will be remembered in a private family ceremony.
“We are thankful to the family and friends of Mrs. Dorothy Howell Rodham for thinking of George Washington University Medical Center and the Hospital,” said Kaffie Milikin, director of the grateful patient program at GW. “We wish to extend our sincere condolences to the family for their loss."