Republican Rep. Thomas Massie has announced his wife Rhonda has died in a heartbreaking social media post.
The Kentucky lawmaker revealed Friday morning that the mother of his four children and partner of 35 years had passed away.
A cause of death was not immediately known as tributes from his colleagues flooded in. Rhonda was 51.
‘Yesterday my high school sweetheart, the love of my life for over 35 years, the loving mother of our 4 children, the smartest kindest woman I ever knew, my beautiful and wise queen forever, Rhonda went to Heaven,’ Massie wrote on social media.
‘Thank you for your prayers for our family in this difficult time.’
Ron DeSantis, a friend of Massie, tweeted: ‘Casey and I are heartbroken for your loss. We are praying for you and your family.’
‘I am deeply saddened by the passing of Rhonda Massie, the beloved wife of my friend and colleague, Thomas Massie. Rhonda’s warmth, kindness, and dedication to her family and community touched everyone who had the privilege of knowing her,’ said fellow Kentucky Republican Rep. Andy Barr.
Barr lost his own wife in 2020, just shy of her 40th birthday.
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Republican Rep. Thomas Massie has announced his wife Rhonda has died in heartbreaking social media post
The Kentucky lawmaker revealed Friday morning that the mother of his four children and partner of 35 years had passed away
Yesterday my high school sweetheart, the love of my life for over 35 years, the loving mother of our 4 children, the smartest kindest woman I ever knew, my beautiful and wise queen forever, Rhonda went to Heaven,’ Massie wrote on social media
Massie and his wife Rhonda, who both went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have an ‘off the grid’ home in Kentucky where they use electricity from their own solar panels, water from their well, raise cattle and farm their own fruits and vegetables.
‘She was valedictorian at our high school where we went to the Prom together, accepted at MIT and Harvard, earned a Mechanical Engineering degree from MIT, and devoted her life to our family,’ Massie went on of his wife.
Just last week they had toured Mt. Rainier, Washington with their family, he said.
