In this photo from the files of The Home Reporter, future President Ronald Reagan and wife Nancy are shown in April, 1978 at the Cotillion Terrace catering hall on 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst, where Mr. Reagan addressed 500 guests at the annual County GOP Dinner, now named in his honor.
A Queens native, Mrs. Reagan died of congestive heart failure on Sunday, March 6 at her Los Angeles, California home. She was 94.
She will be buried on Friday, March 11 next to her husband at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.