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Memorial service announced for Republican activist Barbara Gessler
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Several people have asked Colorado Poltics to keep them posted, and this weekend Scott Gessler shared the family’s plans for his mother’s memorial. Barbara Simich Gessler was much more in Republican political circles than the mother of the former secretary of state and 2014 gubernatorial candidate. She passed away on Dec. 1 after a struggle…
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Denver political matriarch Barbara Gessler succumbs to cancer
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She was the petite mother of former secretary of state and gubernatorial candidate Scott Gessler, but Barbara Simich Gessler stood in no one’s shadow politically or otherwise. She was an outspoken Republican beloved by many in the party. She died after Friday after a battle with lung cancer. She was 78 years old. Scott Gessler…
