Reeves Widow Dies Of Lung Cancer

Dana Reeve, a singer-actress who gave up some of her own career to be one of the a caregiver to her actor husband Christopher Reeve, died late Monday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medical Center, said Kathy Lewis, president of the Christopher Reeve Foundation.

Reeve had succeeded her husband as chair of the foundation, which funded research into spinal-cord paralysis cures. She announced in August that, while she wasn't a smoker, she had been diagnosed with lung cancer. Her cancer may have been a direct result of seconhand smoke over her years of performances where smoking was allowed.

No funeral services were announce by the family.