NC Has suffered a great loss today....

The members of CCTA and of our community are mourning the loss of Senator Jean Preston, who passed away early this morning.

There are no words that can come close to describing what Jean meant to so many.  Her kindness, her faith, her dedication to special education and her many years of service will be remembered for a very long time.

We offer our deepest sympathy to her family, her friends and the citizens of North Carolina.

God Bless and Keep you Jean, we all loved you.


Sen. Jean Preston dies week after serious fall--North Carolina State Senator Jean Preston suffered a bad fall and was being treated at a Connecticut hospital last week. Friends of the legislator said she passed away Wednesday evening from complications from that fall.

Sun Journal:  Retired state Sen. Jean Preston dead at 77

Retired state senator Jean Rouse Preston, 77, died early Thursday in a Connecticut hospital where she had been in intensive care since suffering a fall during a holiday visit with friends.

A career educator who worked initially with special needs children, Preston completed her 20-year political career as Joint Republican Caucus leader and as co-chair of Senate committees on education and education appropriations. 
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