Her coal-miner father, Charles Stoner, lost both legs to diabetes and died in his 40's.
Her husband, William Stringer died of a heart attack at 47 on the night before Thanksgiving in 1992.
Her only daughter, Janine, known as Nina, has brain damage from a bout of meningitis as an infant. Nina, at 26, remains unable to speak or care for herself.
In September 2000, her son Justin, then 16, suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car crash in which he was a backseat passenger.
In the summer of 2001 her nephew Korey Stringer, an offensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings, died of heat stroke during a practice.
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