Matilda Cuomo added: "She left a wonderful legacy for women. She will always be remembered. Former Queens City Councilman Eric Gioia , who first met her as a teenager in his parents' flower shop on Roosevelt Avenue, described her as a role model within the Italian-American community. The former Queens Congresswoman passed away from cancer Saturday in Boston at the age of Ferraro was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in She was reportedly only given three years to live by doctors.
McGrath also remarked on Ferraro's commitment to her family. Palin, who was Alaska's governor when she ran for vice president, often spoke of Ferraro on the campaign trail. For his part, Mondale remembered his former running mate as "a remarkable woman and a dear human being. She broke a lot of molds and it's a better country for what she did," Mondale told The Associated Press.
Ferraro died at Massachusetts General Hospital , where she had gone Monday for a procedure to relieve back pain caused by a fracture. Such fractures are common in people with her type of blood cancer because of the thinning of their bones, said Dr. Noopur Raje, the Mass General doctor who treated her.
Ferraro, however, developed pneumonia, which made impossible to perform the procedure, and it soon became clear she didn't have long to live, Raje said. Since she was too ill to return to New York, her family went to Boston. Raje said it seemed Ferraro held out until her husband and three children arrived. They were all at her bedside when she passed, she said.
Ferraro stepped into the national spotlight at the Democratic convention in , giving the world its first look at a co-ed presidential ticket.
It seemed, at times, an awkward arrangement -- she and Mondale stood together and waved at the crowd but did not hug and barely touched. Delegates erupted in cheers at the first line of her speech accepting the vice-presidential nomination.
Ferraro, a mother of three who campaigned wearing pastel-hued dresses and pumps, sometimes overshadowed Mondale on the campaign trail, often drawing larger crowds and more media attention than the presidential candidate. But controversy accompanied her acclaim. A Roman Catholic, she encountered frequent, vociferous protests of her favorable view of abortion rights. She famously tangled with Bush, her vice presidential rival who struggled at times over how aggressively to attack Ferraro.
She was The cause was complications from multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that she had battled for 12 years, her family said in a statement.
And for a moment, for the Democratic Party and an untold number of American women, anything seemed possible: a woman occupying the second-highest office in the land, a derailing of the Republican juggernaut led by President Ronald Reagan, a President Walter Mondale.
It did not turn out that way — not by a long shot. After the roars in the Moscone Center had subsided and a fitful general election campaign had run its course, hopes for Mondale and his plain-speaking, barrier-breaking running mate were buried in a Reagan landslide.
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