On April 14, 1968 – 57 years ago today – the Montgomery Advertiser reported that a wheelchair and hospital bed were delivered to the Alabama Governor’s Mansion for use by Gov. Lurleen Wallace, who had just been released from a seven-week stay at St. Margaret’s Hospital for treatment of cancer that had metastasized.
She would pass away in an upstairs bedroom at the Mansion a little more than three weeks later with her family gathered by her side.
Courtesy of The Art of Alabama Politics.
