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News10 Nov 2006


Double Olympic relay gold medallist dies

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time Olympic gold medallist and former World record holder Annette Rogers Kelly (USA) died on Wednesday. She was 92.

A graduate of Senn High School of Chicago and Northwestern University, Rogers Kelly won 4x100m relay gold medals at the 1932 and 1936 Olympic Games. At the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles she placed sixth in the High Jump, and in 1936 in Berlin she finished fifth in the 100m. Rogers Kelly also was a member of 4x100m relay quartets that twice set the World record in that event in 1932.

The funeral will be held Saturday at 8:30 a.m., at St. John Brebeuf Church at 8307 N. Harlem Ave., in Niles, Illinois.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Misericordia Heart of Mercy Center, 6300 N. Ridge Ave., Chicago, Ill., 60660.

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